Euthanasia Persuasive Speech

A. The problem here is that people are already burdened with an illness and on top of that, it is a long and painful process that they must endure.

According to a poll in 2015, 68% of United States residents believe that physician assisted suicide should be legal (“In”). Physician assisted suicide (PAS) gives terminally ill patients a way to end their lives peacefully before they die from whatever terminal illness they have. If physician assisted suicide became legal, many people would be saved from pain and anguish. On top of that, ill people could retain some power and control over their life. And though bringing money into the discussion might be crude, assisted suicide can save millions. Physician assisted suicide should be legal in order to ensure a dignified death for terminally ill patients.

It has been argued that for people on life support systems and people with long standing diseases causing much pain and distress, euthanasia is a better choice. It helps in relieving them from pain and misery. In cases like terminal cancers when the patient is in much pain and when people associated with them also are put through a lot of pain and misery, it is much more practical and humane to grant the person his/her wish to end his/her own life in a relatively painless and merciful way.

Physician-assisted suicide is an extremely controversial issue. Physician-assisted suicide is when a physician assists a terminally ill patient in ending their life by providing the patient with both the information and medicine necessary for them to carry out the task themselves (Ebrahimi 2012). On October 27, 1997 Oregon passed the Death with Dignity Law, permitting terminally ill state residents to end their lives by giving themselves a lethal dose of medicine prescribed by their doctor (Oregon.gov). There are people who believe that the Death with Dignity Law should be implemented across the nation because it gives people who are already dying from a disease a chance to end their life with dignity, while others believe that doctors

The idea and ethicality of Physician-Assisted Suicide is a rather dark and controversial subject due to the fact that someone is in need of killing themselves. Most people believe suicide to be unethical, they believe there will always be another way out, sadly suicide is an inevitable thing to occur, there will always be some person who feels the need to do it; Mary Williams states, “how is the option of a razor to the wrist or a gun in the mouth more morally palatable than a physician-administered drug”(Source A). Williams’ observation about suicide is sensible because people committing suicide are doing it with drug overdoses, guns, and razors this will never stop, so why not allow those people to choose a more dignified and humane way

As we have explained so far throughout our speeches, we think that for the people that are suffering because their treatment is not working, that they should have the option of euthanasia.Under such circumstances, because they are suffering and nothing is working they should have a choice - that means it is of their own will - to die a painless death with the assistance of a doctor. We believe there are too many stories of people who are suffering and want the pain to end but can't die with dignity. Some of them end up committing suicide on their own.

John Frank quotes the American Medical Association saying “Allowing physician assisted suicide would cause more harm than good. Physician- assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks” (Frank, 36).

When a middle aged woman is diagnosed with a life ending critical disease, she will be forced to live with unbearable pain in the last days of her life, and wishes to have a death with dignity, that doesn't involve insufferable pain. I have personally witnessed family members and friends with critical illnesses, face intolerable pain and live in their own personal hell within their final days. Some patients wish these life ending diseases ask that they may have their lives ended early so that they can slip into a peaceful death surrounded by those they love. Physician assisted suicide (also known as euthanasia) is the killing of a person by the injection of a lethal substance. This has been put in place in order to allow the critically ill

Physician assisted suicide, a method legal is some states and countries, is a way for people under certain conditions to be prescribed a death inducing drug. Campaigners of assisted suicide claim that physician assisted suicide should be legal and available to those that meet certain requirements because it is an easy way to end someone’s struggles and pains with terminal illness. However, I think it should not be legal. Between the fact that a person is a person and deserves a life and opportunity, the business of killing will always have loopholes and problems, it is a doctor’s responsibility to make sure the patient lives, and the fact that this could desensitize the public of death.

Of course there have been horrible cases in which euthanasia takes place without consent but this is why it should be regulated. People may argue that if passed the law could be abused, but like any law anything can be abused. With a good system the law of euthanasia could be refined in such a way to help avoid cases like such from happening. There shall be a critical element in the regulation of physician-assisted suicide determining the line between what is considered to be euthanasia and what is considered

"Physician assisted-suicide," "Euthanasia"-call it what you may. This is one of the most emotionally debated subjects effecting our lives today. Generally people in the community are either all for the legalization of physician assisted-suicide or totally against it. There are no laws in the United States making it is illegal to take one's own life. In fact, people all around the world take their own lives on a daily basis either purposely or accidentally. Are you for it or against it? Let me give you an example of why I am wholeheartedly all for physician assisted suicide. My 30 year old brother had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatitis. The doctors stated there is no cure, but could try chemo and radiation therapy to extend his life. My brother was a hard-working, compassionate and free-spirited man. Tom would give the shirt off his back and would pull over to the side of the road to help a complete stranger if they needed it. My brother was very stubborn, so it was no surprise that he opted

A dead man walking, but yet you have to keep on walking till you take your last breathe. Weak, unhealthy, and already a part of the deceased, you can’t end your own life and neither can your physician. My grandfather was recently in the hospital for terminal cancer with multiple lymph nodes in his throat with excruciating pain every time he coughed, I wondered why they couldn't just let him go if he was going to die soon anyways. Already dying soon, unbearable pain, and being bored counting the colorful blocks on the curtain, wouldn’t you want to go to paradise too?

The fact of the matter is that as America continues to grow in understanding, the legality of assisted suicide should only continue to rise as other states will begin to adopt their own laws on the subject. Yet no matter what the future holds for assisted suicide cases, it is safe to assume the issue will always be shrouded in some kind of controversy. There will always be people who believe that their ideas are the only ones worth having and that they know what is best for you; however, everyone needs to remember that this is the choice that these people have made for themselves with their best interest in mind and by denying people the right to die. By denying people their right to die, you deny their right to the pursuit of happiness, something this country was founded on. That’s why it is crucial that all American men and women have the option of physician assisted suicide regardless of what others believe.

Imagine if a close relative of yours was dying of lung cancer. Each breath they took was agonizing. No medicine or drug could lessen their pain. Their life had become a torture. They ask you to end their torment. What would you do? If you helped to hasten their death, you would most likely go to prison for murder. What this relative has asked you to do is to commit Euthanasia. Webster's Encyclopedia describes Euthanasia as the practice of hastening or causing the death of a person suffering from an incurable disease . Simply put, Euthanasia is mercy killing.

The sterile smell of antiseptic fills the bleak, white walled room. Imagine that you are sitting next to your 35 year old your sister, a fit, bubbling, lawyer in her prime, absorbing everything you can: the sweet smell of her apple shampoo, her radiant smile leaving the littlest bit of her mouth open, and her crisp green eyes that seem as if they are looking into your soul. your sister’s bubbling with excitement, going on and on about the great day ahead. But she’s not being released from the hospital. Not getting taken off of the machines that control her. Not getting any further. She is about to willing end of her life of suffering that lung cancer has exposed her to. She’s ready to take the next step, but you will never be.