Assisted Suicide Persuasive Speech
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Should we allow someone to kill us when we are nearing death, or should we let nature take its toll on us? Assisted suicide is the act of a terminally ill patient requesting to die with a medicine or taking something the patient is in need of. Assisted suicide has certainly cause many disputes around the world. Many places around the world have already claimed one side over the other. California and Australia are the biggest supporters for assisted suicide. While New Mexico and Italy have refused to give their citizens the right to end their life. Many hospitals and religious groups have tried to fight against the threat of such laws. Doctors are split on the topic mainly because of the question what is morally correct. Doctors have …show more content…
For starters, some believe that assisted suicide help the patient “die with dignity”. Firstly, the doctors find the patients suffering hard to watch. For example, John C. Goodman Journalist for Tribune News Service reports, that Scott Alexander says many of his patients die by being in an extreme amount of pain and no quality of life. (Goodman). Therefore, this point proves that it could make the doctors job a lot harder. Secondly, some doctors even would not want to have a life that a terminally ill patient has. For Instance, Goodman reports that Dr. Ken Murray says “"I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, 'Promise me if you find me like this that you'll kill me.' They mean it." Therefore, this confirms that many doctors and physicians would not want to go through the same pain and agony. Thirdly, some of the conditions of the patients get really gruesome. Goodman tells us that Dr. Alexander says that the body will create foul smell, and many patients will life in their own fecal matter. Some patients might even require to have an amputation to prolong their life’s. Consequently, this information shows that sometimes it would be easier to die instead to suffer. For all these reasons dying could be a more appealing
Should we allow someone to kill us when we are nearing death, or should we let nature take its toll on us? Assisted suicide is the act of a terminally ill patient requesting to die with a medicine or taking something the patient is in need of. Assisted suicide has certainly cause many disputes around the world. Many places around the world have already claimed one side over the other. California and Australia are the biggest supporters for assisted suicide. While New Mexico and Italy have refused to give their citizens the right to end their life. Many hospitals and religious groups have tried to fight against the threat of such laws. Doctors are split on the topic mainly because of the question what is morally correct. Doctors have …show more content…
For starters, some believe that assisted suicide help the patient “die with dignity”. Firstly, the doctors find the patients suffering hard to watch. For example, John C. Goodman Journalist for Tribune News Service reports, that Scott Alexander says many of his patients die by being in an extreme amount of pain and no quality of life. (Goodman). Therefore, this point proves that it could make the doctors job a lot harder. Secondly, some doctors even would not want to have a life that a terminally ill patient has. For Instance, Goodman reports that Dr. Ken Murray says “"I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, 'Promise me if you find me like this that you'll kill me.' They mean it." Therefore, this confirms that many doctors and physicians would not want to go through the same pain and agony. Thirdly, some of the conditions of the patients get really gruesome. Goodman tells us that Dr. Alexander says that the body will create foul smell, and many patients will life in their own fecal matter. Some patients might even require to have an amputation to prolong their life’s. Consequently, this information shows that sometimes it would be easier to die instead to suffer. For all these reasons dying could be a more appealing