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Euthanasia Persuasive Essay

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Matthew Donnelly lived a fantastic life, but he wanted to perish. He spent 30 years studying X-rays and was later diagnosed with skin cancer. He had been disfigured, he lost his nose, parts of his jaw, fingers, and was riddled blind. He was told he had one more year to live, in extreme pain, but wasn’t presented the option of euthanasia. So, his brother shot and killed him out of mercy after watching him suffer. He was later tried for murder. For decades, euthanasia has been relevant, slowly phasing in and out of legalization for years. Some people may consider euthanasia to be in legal limbo, due to each position being balanced, and it isn’t something my people like to think about. Each side of this argument is usually the same. People believe euthanasia should be illegal, and often refer to euthanasia as assisted suicide. Due to people being unable to communicate when they …show more content…

In many religions, suicide is not accepted. This can also be viewed as murder, since euthanasia is assisted. You can’t really argue against this since this is what people believe, but one or any religion doesn’t need to apply to everyone, and believing that it does directly leads to radicalism. However, if a person gives consent to euthanasia, it can’t relate to murder. Also, people will share different beliefs and euthanasia may coincide with their faith. “To those who argue that Maynard is ending her life before God can intervene, she says: ‘Cancer is ending my life. I am choosing to end it a little sooner and in a lot less pain and suffering.’” (Joanna Rothkopf) The author of this quote was a sufferer of stage 4 brain cancer and was looking for a way to accelerate her death. This is relative to my argument because this shows how euthanasia is different from suicide/ murder. This ties to my belief that euthanasia should be legal on the federal level due to this not directly leading into suicide/

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Threatening to diminish the value of life is very dangerous. Euthanasia, also called mercy killing, is the practice of doctors intentionally ending a terminally ill patient’s life in what is purportedly a gentle and dignified manner. The term originated in ancient Greek and means “easy death.” Doctors perform euthanasia by administering lethal drugs or by withholding treatment that would prolong the patient’s life. Physician-assisted suicide is also a form of euthanasia, but the difference between the two methods is that in euthanasia, doctors end the patient’s life with lethal injections, whereas, in physician-assisted suicide, patients kill themselves with a lethal amount of drugs prescribed by the doctors.

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