The Person at the End of the Chain

🔊 Listen to this post &#xA; There is a line on some forms where a human being has to sign. &#xA; Not type a name. &#xA; Sign. &#xA; A school permission slip has one. So does a hospital consent form. Somewhere near the bottom, after all the boxes and little printed warnings, the paper stops being general and starts asking a very old question: who, exactly, is standing here for this decision? &#xA;…