The "someone else problem" can be used to criticize the validity of advance directives.

Advance directives are legal documents that allow individuals to express their wishes about medical treatment in advance, in case they become unable to communicate those wishes themselves. The "someone else's problem" (SEP) field, a concept from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," humorously refers to a psychological effect where people ignore things they don't want to deal with. Criticisms of advance directives typically focus on issues like potential ambiguity in the directives or concerns about their applicability in complex medical situations, not on the SEP phenomenon.