Persuasive Speech On Suicide

(CNN)"I've been on the low / I been taking my time / I feel like I'm out of my mind / It feel like my life ain't mine / Who can relate?"

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.

In PAS, the patient must self-administer the medications; the “assisted” portion attributes to a physician providing the medications, but the patient decides whether and when to ingest the lethal medication. Euthanasia occurs when a third party administers medication or acts directly to end the patient’s life. Euthanasia is illegal in every state, including Washington. (CNN).

“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide is the tenth leading cause of death among Americans, accounting for 41,000 deaths in 2013. More than half of all suicides are related to firearms.” Many people have bad thoughts, thoughts so horrific in terms that they want to end their own lives. It’s not just the thoughts that they have, it’s also the different situations they have going on in their lives. In the book: It’s kind of a Funny Story; it expresses the thoughts of one of the characters “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” This character is expressing, the intensity of even being awake. They would rather kill themselves than to go on living the horrible life that they may lead. Suicide is always controversial, many people believe that suicide should never be an option. Although for some of us it is, for me it was at one point. Earlier this year, I was on the brink of taking my life. I was so fed up with everything, I was a mess, and i couldn’t take it anymore. The drama with my dad, and his new girlfriend, then all the stress from school and my two jobs. One day, I had enough, I couldn’t take it anymore it was too much. I got out of work, and I had a bad day at work, the customers were so rude, and I felt helpless. I went to the kitchen, and I grabbed a knife,

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.

Imagine you are confined to a hospital bed, unable to achieve basic tasks that include walking, eating, moving, and even breathing. Your death is inevitable, the pain you are experiencing is excruciating and unbearable. You are given approximately two months to live, but do not want to feel as though you have been defeated in the battle against the terminal disease that binds you with your death. With your doctor, you have been discussing the possible method of Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) to end your agonizing pain. Your family fully supports your decision.

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The suicidal signs are easy to identify, and if you identify them early enough you could save a person’s live that could be in danger.

Think about you lying on a hospital bed and the only reason you are alive is because of wires hooked up to your body. The nurses and doctors are constantly injecting you with painkillers that only prolong your certain death. You are dying without dignity. The only thing that is stopping you know from reaching your kingdom come are the doctors. All this would hardly happen if physician assisted suicide was allowed.

Lives are slowly being lost due to suicide and not only is it affecting themselves but also the people who are around them. Suicide is defined as taking of one’s own life and it is an issue that should be given all attention to. Teen suicide has been talked about in every source of media and it still continues to have a harmful effect in todays generation. In the United States the eighth leading cause of death is suicide, within developing teens, suicide is the third leading cause of their deaths (NAMI). There are many signs of someone who is contemplating suicide. And there are many reason for someone to be driven to the point of suicide. Those reasons being if the teenager is dealing with depression, bullying, sexual abuse and abuse

Our kids need to get help. According to “ American Foundation For Suicide Prevention” it states “The annual age-adjusted suicide rate is 13.42 per 100,000 individuals. On average, there are 123 suicides per day.” depression is very common. Things happen in life that we can't control and some people could be hurting on the inside.

Life is important from when we were first made to natural death. God puts us all on this earth for a reason to love one another. That is why abortion needs to end because what if that person that was killed before birth was going to be the person to find the cure for cancer. With all the deaths due to abortion each year it is less people loving each other. We are just allowing people to kill babies that don’t even have a voice in the world yet. Everyone also needs to prevent assisted suicide because everyone needs to live until natural death.

Teen suicide is a major problem in our society today. The adolescent suicide rate has tripled since 1960, while being the largest cause of death between the ages of 15 and 24. This is the one single age group that has seen an increase in suicides over the past thirty years. There are about 10,000 reported suicides reported annually. It is estimated however, that the true number of teen suicides is actually three to four times that number when unreported deaths are factored in.

So this is a topic that I have been wanting to write for a very long time because I think that it is something that everyone has been impacted in some way or another. I kept making excuses why not to talk about this, but today while I was at work the song In The End by Linkin Park came on. Now if you know me very well at all you will know that Linkin Park is my favorite band of all time, and I think that most people know, but if you don't know their lead singer Chester Bennington committed suicide almost a month ago. The man was fighting demons of sexual abuse from when he was a kid along with drug and alcohol abuse for years and it caught up to him. He was the father of six kids and had a wife he had a successful career and seemed like a happy man. Yet, unfortunately, he took his life.

You've made a life for yourselves around your pretension, but that doesn't mean your Creator must pretend with you. Today you think yourself great and mighty. Tomorrow, worms will think they will have you for dinner. Mortal beings have always recognized their temporary state causing them to pleasure in their pretension. It gives them the audacity to think themselves high and exalted even if it is for a moment in time prior to becoming food for worms. Do you think any of them, after consuming you and picking their teeth, will comment how mighty you tasted?