Binks and May, and the choice of death or life

Did you know the great web elf Binks is a priest? In his latest he tells a story of having a conversation with a severely paralyzed stroke victim, while doing pastoral service in a hospital. It seems everyone has left her for dead, mentally as well as physically, but Binks discovers she is fully conscious and talks with her. Tears flow. This only wins Binks fury from those who want to hurry her death. Mbrandon from Freedom Through Truth has reproduced Binks' story, out from the longer original post.

We Canadians are in more than one way an aging society; will this also entail our spiritual death? Binks' story is a severe warning. But his post also links David Warren who argues

The forces sustaining civilization are always less visible, and more powerful, than the forces of barbarism can understand. And the greatest of these defences is truth itself: the truth that was written from the beginning into the human heart, and will persist to the end. For every human being is endowed with a conscience, whether he wishes to have it or not. He may use various kinds of painkiller to suppress feelings of guilt, for crimes that really are crimes in the sight of God and nature; but the cause of that pain will never go away.

Hence, what we see in the streets around us every day: disinterested acts by people who believe only in self-interest; acts of decency, from people who hardly know what they are doing. Why, this past week, I even witnessed a gratuitous act of kindness towards a man, by a hardened feminist! (Can you believe it?)