Argument Analysis : When Living Is A Fate Worse Than Death

2. Summarize at least four key points made by the authors. In the case of

The author uses mostly personal experiences as evidence to support her claims. The scientific study she mentions is an appeal to the reader's sense

4. List any examples of bias or faulty reasoning that you found in this article.

2. What evidence suggests that the author takes a more negative view of his subject? Explain.

Francis Bacon once said, “I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.” In other words, people are not afraid to die. Rather, they are afraid of the way in which they are going to die. Today, four centuries of medical progress later, Bacon’s words are truer than ever. Medical advances have allowed physicians to prolong the lives of their patients, or maybe it would be better to say, to prolong their deaths. People are made to live too long in ways they would not choose: dependent upon machines, lying in comas, and suffering unbearable pain. Bacon’s “stroke of death” has become the “stretch of death,” giving people all that much more to fear.

Identify any examples of bias presented by the author. If none exist, explain how you determined this.

Death is one of the most significant life events people experience. Most people want to die a peaceful death and desire the same outcome for their family and friends. Medical advancements have resulted in people living longer lives with chronic illnesses. Despite the advancements in medicine and the available treatments of today, sometimes the patient is still unable to escape intolerable suffering; the patient’s quality of life diminishes.

Keeping a person alive by excessive treatment might devastate the family and make the dying suffer tremendously in the end. “Advance medical technology that seems to one person a godsend, extending life, may seem to another a curse that only prolong dying. Dignity can be devalued amid technology focused solely on the biological organism.”

4. What is the most significant finding(s) in the article? Summarize this clearly in several sentences.

What do the authors want to know? (i.e., what is their research question or hypothesis)

experience of the author/researcher for the purposes of extending sociological understanding” (pg.39) It goes on to talk about the different types of evidence this study can have. For example, we can have hard data soft data as well. It also goes on to talk about the feedback you may receive whether that is positive or negative. She mentions receiving a commentary on her writing as great piece of writing but it aslo took the wrong approach. There was also a section that warned us about questions that may cause anxiety or get to personal.

What would you do if you were caring for a child whose condition would eventually kill them, but the parents wanted you to try every treatment? In the article “When Living Is a Fate Worse Than Death” by Christine Mitchell, the main point consists of this very question. The choice that hospital staff sometimes must make between keeping a child alive knowing that their condition will eventually take over or trying every procedure in an attempt to keep them alive. I believe that Mitchell does a great job in stating her claim favoring the side that a child with an illness that would, in time, take their life should be allowed to die peacefully rather than enduring painful procedures and bouncing between home and hospitals.

Before I started my reader-response paper, I read an article by Steven Lynn to help me know the right approach to a reader-response. There is two ways that I can approach this “by describing how readers should respond to the text or by giving the critics’ own personal response or by giving the critic’s own personal response.” I found this to really help me understand the concept of a reader-response paper. I decided to mostly give my own personal response but react on how some other readers might react.

In current times we have made many technological advances that have boosted the medical productivity in hospitals. However, the rapid development of medicine is far from being a long term resolve for many health issues. We have a plethora of people whose quality of life is very low and has no chance of improving. During these situations allowing the person to end their life via euthanasia should be allowed. I will argue that Euthanasia is morally permissible in some cases because there are several moral justifications that argue for ending one’s life.

My argumentative paper will prove that society should have the choice to whether or live or die because of the suffering, medical bills and economic burden. Particularly the people who have an illness, disease or disability. People who have a condition that medication won’t fix their condition can and should result to other alternative to put them out of their Misery. There are three reasons to support my claim. One of my claims is why would someone want to see another person suffer. Society do not understand that euthanasia isn’t similar to suicide you’re not helping someone kill them self for no particular reason. For example, according to health service executive” a doctor who gave a patient with terminal cancer an overdose of muscle relaxants to end their life would be considered to have committed euthanasia” (NHS, pg. 1). Looking on the internet to get powerful