[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