The very obvious answer is for everyone to have a living will.
Then I saw the single obvious answer to two problems at one time.
Finally he got the answer, too obvious for him to see at first.
The most obvious answer is the one they like best.
Obvious answer: make him believe you think he's in the right.
But there is a more important and less obvious answer.
The obvious answer was: back the way he had come.
But, as so often, the obvious answer is the wrong one.
The obvious answer to the first question is: certainly not.
That question has an obvious answer - to make money.