There is a line for the relationship of the person signing.

On that line, in my husband’s handwriting, it says: Father.

And there is a signature, and the signature is his, and the time is 1:50 p.m., and it is countersigned by Dr.

Ubaldi and witnessed by a nurse.

The thing I could not get past for about a month — and Ottilie Brandt walked me through it on our third call, patiently, twice — is that it was legal.

Completely, entirely legal.