There is no logical answer. You'd think these things would have lost their power to bother me. But they haven't. Peter Sarsgaard plays the love of Mathis's institutional life, a quad who got that way by driving drunk. He comes on incessantly to Mathis's character.
Quads generally copulate.
Instead of actually looking into resources, he hangs himself. The only good part of that scene is that it shows that even a poor helpless quad can kill himself without the Kevorkians of the world to help him. Mathis tells us how impressed she is that people with this kind of disability can have a high quality of life. This is not expressed as fact, but amazement. A longer version of this article ran in Steve Brown's online newsletter, Manifesto.