[lynx97]

> Without his brother to care for him, he perished in the same house.

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

[thaumasiotes]

It's a terrible example of why you should strive for independence.

>> 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.

[arkey]

Remove single points of failure, ensure redundancy of dependencies, etc.

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.

[gametorch]

sure, tell the blind man what to do

[mensetmanusman]

Independent in the context of modern capitalism means attaching to more and more support nodes as everything that was serviced by family/clan in the past is replaced by individual entities that can be activated with cash transactions. (Everything except actually caring for you as a person, those require a strong third place).

[lynx97]

I take a cash transaction over my patronising and frankly borderline crazy mother every day. This iddealisation of family has to stop, it is a cruel lie.

[mensetmanusman]

The genes say otherwise. Strong families are the only ones surviving prosperity induced population collapse globally.

[nandomrumber]

Infect, Israel is the only Western nation that has a fertility rate above replacement.

Probably because it is predominantly comprised of Jews and Muslims, who seem to value family much more than us heathens.

[mensetmanusman]

The orthodox communities in the western countries are growing, but not at a faster rate than the secularists disappear.