I had to move my work cubicle to another building and while unpacking I found a little sticker that had been handed out at one of our regular weekly safety meetings:
It's a little red round sticker, with "ICE" in big white letters. Smaller text says:
icesticker.com
Contact available
In Case of Emergency
When I received the sticker originally I was using my Nokia 9300 which had a dedicated button on the keyboard for Contacts so any emergency responder should have no trouble seeing the button and finding my ICE contact (spouse).
On the N97 however, this may not be so obvious since each person's home screen could be different.
So...what I propose is a homescreen shortcut that looks like this sticker so that when an emergency responder picks up the phone (if they EVER can figure out how to unlock it! ;-v ) they will at least be able to find the ICE contact quickly.
It should look up the ICE contact in the Contacts directory and open the contact entry for a call.