Great example why you always need to strive for independence as a disabled person. If your family tries to directly or indirectly slow that process down, they are a danger to your well being.
-- signed, a blind man
>> Langley died first. He was crushed by one of his own booby traps - a makeshift tunnel of newspapers and debris - while attempting to bring food to his paralyzed brother Homer.
An independent paralytic is a dead paralytic. You can't be independent and paralyzed.
Being able to contact other people in case of an emergency by definition would make him more independent than he was, obviously.
Maybe not independent, but less critically dependant, that would be the goal.
Probably because it is predominantly comprised of Jews and Muslims, who seem to value family much more than us heathens.