Can Jehovah's witness celebrate the memorial from home?

Answer 1

Yes, if someone if physically unable to gather with fellow worshippers because of for example they are in an intensive care, have a debilitating illness or is physically attached to life sustaining medical equipment that cannot be moved, arrangements can be made to tie a person in via radio or video links so they can celebrate the memorial from home.

Also some are isolated in solitary confinement in prison or confined to their home because of persecusion or because legal authorities have restricted their movement and the above applies. According to the Watchtower 1963, issue July 15th page 441 paragraph 3. which recounts the experience of the Jehovah's Witness missionary Harold King that spent 5 years in solitary confinement in a Chinese prison for his faith:

Each year I arranged to celebrate the Memorial of Christ's death in the best way I could. From my prison window I watched the moon grow full near the start of spring. I calculated as carefully as I could the date for the celebration. Of course, I had no way to obtain the emblems, the bread and the wine, and the warders refused to give such things to me. So the first two years I could only go through the motions, using imaginary emblems, even as I had preached to imaginary householders. Then the third year I found some tins of black currants in my Red Cross parcel, and from these I succeeded in making wine, while rice, which is unleavened, served for bread. This year I had both my wine and some unleavened water biscuits from the Red Cross parcel to use as emblems. I sang and prayed and gave a regular talk for the occasion, just as would be done in any congregation of Jehovah's people. So I felt that each year I was united with my brothers all over the world on this most important occasion.