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Doctor Assisted Suicide Speech

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Doctors Assisted Suicide
I. (Intro)
When Lonny Shavelson was asked for her opinion on doctors assisted suicide she said, “We always listen to the patient. We never tell a patient: 'This is what you have to do. You have no choice.' Yet at the moment when their life is ending — when they say, 'I don’t want to live in this bed for the next three weeks waiting to die' — it's an odd change in the consent procedure. Suddenly they become wrong and we become right.”
I am going to assume most of you know somebody or at least know people who know others with cancer, or a terminal illness. If i am right then you all know how it affects the person and the people around them. Everyone should be able to prevent a death with suffering or be able to control their own deaths if they are already going to be killed by their disease. I would much rather be able to chose how I die then let a disease kill me. …show more content…

I can speak about this because I have family members that have both survived and died of cancer and i know what they went through.
If doctors assisted suicide was supported more heavily, patients who have been kissed by death would have control over the way they go and

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