Persuasive Essay On Life After Death

We are culturally ingrained from an early age that life is precious and each day is a gift. Life should not be squandered but preserved.  We are encouraged to live with a purpose, cherish our loved ones and live life to its fullest. But what if life becomes too physically painful to endure, often experienced by many terminally ill patients suffering an incurable disease, or a chronically ill elderly person who lacks the ability to thrive?  For forty-five day’s I watched my chronically ill mother languish away in a hospice care facility. The experience was emotionally and financially draining, and I began questioning whether a person should have the right to choose when and how to end their life. In the United States, assisted dying is a widely debated and passionate issue. Opponents argue preserving life, regardless of how much a person is suffering, is an ethical and moral responsibility, determined only by a higher power.  At the other end of the spectrum are those who support a person’s right to end their life with dignity at a time of their choosing.   Wouldn’t my mother’s suffering been greatly reduced if her doctor was legally and ethically permitted to administer a lethal cocktail of drugs to end her life quickly and painlessly? Wouldn’t the prevailing memory of my mother see her in a better light instead of helplessly watching her undignified death? To deny terminal and chronically ill people the freedom to end their

Explained: When people understand that death will occur, then they will spend there life doing things with meaning and not walking around half-asleep. Then, they will learn they only have a specific time to live so they should live life to the fullest and do things that are enjoyable.

Imagine coming home from middle school to your grandmother house on your mother’s side to find it unusually quiet and everyone with tears in their eyes. Imagine being told your father had a routine surgery but nothing was routine about the results. Imagine having thanksgiving dinner with your family and the phone rings then you hear a loud scream and feet running towards you to let you know your father has died. Imagine going to school the following weeks and hearing jokes that your dad died because “the turkey was dry”, “He choked on a chicken bone”, and “He wanted to leave your mom”. I did not have to imagine because it became my reality at the age of 13.

Many terminally-ill patients give up hope when treatments are no longer available to help them and hospice care is given to them as an option. However, hospice care has proven itself to provide the best quality care for the last six months of the dying. The purpose of hospice is to provide the best care for terminally-ill patients at the end stage of their lives. Hospice offer services to support too many aspects a patient’s life such as medical, legal, spiritual care. Hospice includes art therapists, music therapists, and certified chaplains on the palliative team.

Death is something that many people fear and many people face. Most people do not know exactly when they are going to die, but being given a sort of idea of that can change the way someone thinks and acts drastically. Death is in escapable. Everyone must die eventually, some young, like my friend in fifth grade who passed from being in an ATV accident, and others old, such as my 15 year old cat who recently passed.

Life after death is a widely discussed issue all over the world today. With the various amounts of religions and their beliefs of what occurs post-death, it causes a great amount of controversy. Scientists have been conducting research and experiments to try and find a solution for it. Movies, articles, books and etc have been created to try and persuade the citizens of the world to believe in one way or another. As we gain more technology and ways of thinking, more investigations are taking place. Some experts say that we go to heaven and hell, others say we reincarnate into another form of living, and the idea of going to another dimension is possible. Reports have been made in witnesses passing and coming back in a different form with remembrance of their past life. A solution to this issue is to hold a study of multiple individuals and for scientists to create a way to see what happens after they pass with the technology we obtain. Everyone’s life eventually comes to an end, including you and I; wouldn't it be relieving to know what occurs after each and every person takes their final breath?

People in Life or Death Situations should not be held accountable for their action. They are obviously going to want to be alive and happy, and not die or live in misery, so they would most likely do whatever it takes to survive. Whoever made the decisions weren’t fully thinking it through because we all develop mentally at a different age for childrens and adults. People who are in life or death situations don’t put themselves in that positions purposely to where they know they can die. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice. No matter the circumstances, most people would try to do what is right in a “Life or Death” situation for everyone.

Being alive is very precious, which many people take for granted as it goes for that one quote “You’re alive but are you really living?”. Death is something that people fear and will always be inevitable. With that in mind, how would one know if they were alive unless they knew that they could die? Living forever is overrated, and life itself being a race against death. This is why we must create a meaningful life, actively engaging in something of value to us and ultimately succeeding, preventing death from taking anything away, and depriving us from further experiences.

“Americans are not entirely averse to suicide in cases of terminal illness. Currently six in ten Americans believe that a person has a right to end his or her own life if that person has an incurable disease” (Benson 267). It is obvious that most Americans can agree that assisted suicide is the final decision of the terminally ill patient. When it comes down to it, many terminal patients cannot make this decision, because they may live within a state where assisted suicide is illegal. So far, only seven states have made assisted suicide legal and one state has legal physician suicide by court ruling, while the rest still considers assisted suicide illegal. Even though some people do not approve of assisted suicide because of moral or ethical

Death is a concept that is hard for many people to understand. “‘Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it’” (Albom 80). This is a quote from the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. This book is a memoir and in the story the main character, Mitch, finds out that his old college professor, Morrie, has been diagnosed with ALS and only has a little while longer to live. Mitch and Morrie then decide to meet every Tuesday to talk about things like the true meaning of life as Morrie becomes sicker in the process. The book circulates around the idea of life and death, and how it affects people, and really speaks to the reader about what is truly important in life.

That death might actually be a learning process, that teaches humans that dying truly gives them the ability to understand what they have. That people become immortal once they die though the people they loved and changed. In ancient times, people strove to be immortal, yet they died: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. But “immortality of a name is less the ability to live forever than the inability to die” (Brown 2). When Enkidu died, he managed to survive through his love and companionship with Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh trekked through the six leagues of darkness because of Enkidu’s untimely death; meanwhile Enkidu’s death gave him time to reflect on his life and find that death brought meaning to his life. Not to mention, when people become older they begin reflecting on their lives. They become content and the feel fulfilled through what they have done. Therefore, they learn to let go of being so controlling and to just let life

Death is what gives my life meaning. It’s true everyone will die. When we will die? That is a fact that no one truly knows. It could be tomorrow, next year, or 50 years from now. Death causes this weird type of fear in people. I see death as a motivation, to make my life as meaningful as possible in the little time I am given.

Does the finality of death make life meaningless? Although many people feel that it does, Death appears to render life meaningless for many people because they feel that there is no point in developing character or increasing knowledge if our progress is ultimately going to be thwarted by death.

Life After Death All of the major religions believe in life after death. However the ideas from religion to religion can vary greatly. I am going to look at Hinduism and Christianity, two religions that I have been surrounded by all my life, and the different perceptions they have of life after death, and then I will give my own view. "For certain is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve.

The debate over the use of euthanasia is ever growing. This is due to the fact of constant increases in medical advances. Medical advances are growing the number of medicines one can be given before palliative care is an option. The main concern of the debate is whether trying new treatments and medicines are necessary before palliative care is given. Two articles will be analyzed using the Aristotelian method. Both articles are valid, but the New York Times article written by Haider Javed Warraich offers a complete perspective using all three persuasive appeals compared to the article written by Terry Pratchett for The Guardian, which the majority is written on emotion.