This guy is part of my extended circle, but I never met him directly, he IS brilliant though:
www3.interscience.wiley.com/jour...tract

"A Living Will Clause for Supporters of Animal Experimentation
DAVID SZTYBEL 1

"ABSTRACT
"Many people assume that invasive research on animals is justified because of its supposed benefits and because of the supposed mental inferiority of animals. However probably most people would be unwilling to sign a living will which consigns themselves to live biomed-ical experimentation if they ever, through misfortune, end up with a mental capacity equivalent to a laboratory animal. The benefits would be greater by far for medical science if living will signatories were to be used, and also the mental superiority boast would no longer apply. Ultimately, it is argued that invasive biomedical experiments would be unacceptable in a democratic society whose members are philosophically self-consistent. "

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I will even use this idea in demos for those people who say that it is acceptable to test on animals because animals have no mind and no forethought. "So.." I will say. "would you be willing to sign such a living will if you should ever become "brain dead" or severely mentally disabled? Why not? because even if you can still FEEL pain, it doesn't matter because you have no mind, and no memory of the pain." ;-)

what do you think?