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Assisted Suicide Persuasive Speech

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Assisted suicide also known as euthanasia, is the painless killing of somebody who is terminally ill or in very much pain and dying. It is illegal in most countries. The reason it is illegal is because (according to NHS) it is illegal to help someone kill themselves no matter the circumstances. In the UK assisted suicide has a 14 year maximum in prison but in the USA it varies in different states. There are two main types of euthanasia, voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary is euthanasia conducted with consent. Involuntary is euthanasia conducted without consent, which is if somebody is unable to make the decision themselves someone else does. There are also two types of procedural euthanasia, passive and active. Passive is when a life saving …show more content…

Let's say that I am diagnosed with terminal cancer and have 6-8 months to live. 8 months later I am in the hospital in excruciating pain but he can not help me die because euthanasia is illegal. So that however much long I am in the hospital with terminal cancer I will have to be in pain every single day of my life and nothing can be done and I have to die in pain. If it was legal I could ask the doctor for something to help me die and he could provide and then I would not have to die in pain. I do not see why it is illegal but i can see why some doctors or physicians would not want to do this. As a patient you should have the right to euthanasia it is your decision and your life. Doctors may not want to do it due to their religious and ethics; also their hippocratic oath says do no harm. If you don’t perform euthanasia and the patient is in immense pain not performing euthanasia is doing more harm than letting them live with that pain. I can see where this would not be good in every country though. Some doctors could perform euthanasia but the patient did not want it and no one would know. A patient wants euthanasia and get it but the doctor never reports it so it looks like they just died and that could prove to be a very large problem. If everyone had good intentions with it then it should be legal in every country but that will never happen so i see why it is not legal in

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Assisted Suicide means that patients have a right to die. According to an article called Issues and Controversies “When patients reach a point where, illness, pain, suffering and lack of freedom have essentially destroyed their quality of life, they should have the ability to end their lives legally and in a dignified manner”(“Right to Die”). Everybody should be able to have a say over how they want to die especially when they have reached a certain point where they are just suffering and there's a way to end it. In Jaret’s words, “I should have the right to take my life when that seems proper and the best thing to do. Suicide isn't illegal.

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Wouldn't you want a way out? With physician-assisted suicide, you could finally have a way out of your never ending pain. Physician-assisted suicide should be legal for terminally-ill patients. Physician-assisted suicide is defined by the voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician. A physician will prescribe the treatment and either preform the treatment themselves (Euthanasia) or have the patient preform the treatment.

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Only legal in three states, only 255 people receive the lethal prescription from physician raging from ages 42 to 91 and all of them where diagnosed with terminal cancer (Gordon). One day you could find yourself struggling with the options, you need to know your facts and you will find that you will want to option to physician assisted suicide either for yourself or for a loved one. Doctor assisted suicide should be done only if terminally ill, and require a living will in order to respect the right of the individual. Individuals should have the freedom to choose between active euthanasia (injection of sedatives) or passive euthanasia (rejecting treatment)

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Euthanasia is defined as a painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease which is illegal in most countries. Assisted suicide occurs when doctors decide to help a person transition to death with the little pain possible. Assisted suicide goes against all the basic practices of medicine and can affect the nurses or doctors who take a patient's life. Watching a patient struggle can be difficult and the viewing of them struggling. Opponents think it is ethical to end a patient's life.

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Physician assisted suicide is a current controversial issue that has been debated over since the colonial days of the United States. The Oxford dictionary defines assisted suicide as, “the act of killing himself/herself with help of somebody such as a doctor, especially because he/she is suffering from a disease that has no cure.” Although the definition seems like a doctor can put easily put a suffering patient out of their pain and misery by euthanizing the patient, the concept is much more complex than that. Euthanizing and medically assisting a patient to commit suicide are two completely different things. According to The World Federation of Right to Die Societies, “euthanasia usually means that the physician would act directly, for instance by giving a lethal injection, to end a patient’s life.”

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