The Persuasive Speech : The Purpose Of Euthanasia

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.

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).

Assisted suicide is not a new practice there is a long history of this that has been dated back to ancient Greece and Rome where a poison hemlock was used for euthanasia. In the 19th century chloroform or other anesthetics were advocated to result

When you stop to think about the issue of active killing, you have to wonder why anyone would want to die in the first place. This is a practice that had been going on for years in many cultures. Not to say it was legal or the moral thing to do, but many people at times felt that they had the right to decide to die. Some people don’t really want to commit suicide or they are at a point in life that they cannot do so themselves so they seek out a medical person to assist them in dying. The ruling

In 1994, physician-assisted suicide became legal in Oregon which was the only state during that time. Physician-assisted suicide, also euthanasia, is when a physician provides a patient with the medical means or the medical knowledge to commit suicide. Particular words are so sensitive that individuals across the world are still, to this day, attempting to delete the Death with Dignity Act. The notion legalizing assisted suicide frightens citizens; however, they do not know how the patient feels. Laws like this should be used to open the minds of citizens who believe that physician-assisted dying is morally wrong and help patients in pain. Patients with a terminal illness should be allowed assisted suicide because their organs can be used freely to save another's life, they can pass knowing it was their choice, and it can decrease the hospital costs of the patients.

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.

“Euthanasia is known as mercy killing [or assisted suicide] in order to painlessly terminate one’s life with the humane motive of ending his or her suffering,” states Dr. M. Maisie. Even though it can be argued that euthanasia is no different from a homicide, euthanasia is no the chance to alleviate agony of terminally ill patient. It is unfair and inhuman to force suffering upon any living thing, and we see animals being shown the compassion that many patients wish they had. Euthanasia saves money that could be used to cure patients. Furthermore, death is inevitable for everyone; it is one of the few things promised in life. But isn’t

Assisted suicide is when the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, affected by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose. It’s a personal decision and no one should make that decision for them. It’s their life and they should be able to decide what to do with it.

Attention Getter: Think about yourself or picture the one person you love with all your heart. Now imagine yourself or your love one suffering from unbearable pain or something so fatal that can’t be cured. There is no way that you or your love one could function without assistance. You or your love one feel that life has no meaning. This is real situation for so many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives.

Trapped in the same four walls everyday, slowly they appear to look as though they are closing in on you. The tiny window, that once gave you hope and light, now began to ever so steadily fade away into nothing. The door that once let in visitors many times a day, now only opened to let in a fake smiling face a few times a week, if you were lucky. Your hope was slowly withering away. You had i.v. lines in for medication, heart monitors and every other hospital machine you could think of attached to you, all to keep you ‘alive’. Everyday you got to lay there all alone, thinking, and waiting, waiting for the day you could just escape the torture. But even if the treatment plan worked, did you want to be alive, you are never going to be your old self again, never going to be able to walk, talk, or even think for yourself ever again. Imagine this was you. Would you want to live a life that you had no control over? Or would you like to be able to make the final decision in your life and be able to have an assisted suicide in order to die happy, in a peaceful way, so that everyone could remember you for the person you were and not the person you became. Euthanasia is still illegal in many countries including New Zealand but together we can work together as a nation in making it legalised as it has many benefits.

If you could decipher your death, how would you choose to die? How would that answer change if you were suffering? Euthanasia, also known as “good death,” is the act of putting a living thing to death painlessly or allowing them to die by withholding extreme medical practices, such as withholding food. Then there is involuntary euthanasia: “a competent person’s life is brought to an end despite an explicit rejection of euthanasia” as stated by Robert Young, the author of Medically Assisted Death. In the case of euthanasia, many people will argue that it is murder, but considering all the ways to die, it is one of the most humane ways to end a life.

Euthanasia, a medically assisted suicide carried out by a medical professional such as a physician or doctor in order to relieve one of pain, is a controversial procedure that is illegal in many parts of the globe (Medical News Today). Pain, both physical and emotional, is seen sometimes as inescapable making euthanasia a necessary procedure to help those in need. While being illegal in many places, euthanasia is best seen as a great alternative option for those suffering and wanting to end the pain they’re undergoing (Medical News Today).

Euthanasia is defined as, "The act or practice of putting to death painlessly a person suffering from an incurable disease." Euthanasia can be traced back as far back as the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. It was sometimes allowed in these civilizations to help others die. Voluntary euthanasia was approved in these ancient societies. Today, the practice of euthanasia causes great controversy. Both pro-life groups and right-to-die groups present arguments for their different sides. Pro-life groups make arguments and present fears against euthanasia. I contend that the case for the right to die is the stronger argument.

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.