The Right To Live Life Persuasive Speech

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Do you ever just wake up and find yourself already wishing you can go back to sleep? Or glare at the sunrise because it is a reminder that you have to live another day? Well, wake up! Because whether you like it or not you are here, and you have to live life. For others, living another day is a good thing, but there are people out there who sees this as a curse, a reason to mourn, and honestly who can blame them? With the cruelty of this world and the impeccable pressure of life, I will not be surprised if we all just kill ourselves, but we should not, because killing ourselves does not solve anything, in fact it can make things worse. We were all brought up with the notion that the act of suicide is wrong, yet there are still thousands who kill themselves every year, ending their lives forever. I am here to tell you that this has to stop and here are the reasons why.

First, suicide defeats the purpose of life. Some people say, we all live only to die, which in some context is right, we are all going to die one day, so why can we not just end the agony and do it now? You see that reasoning is wrong, I think the only time you have the right to die, is if you have fully lived your life, and the only way you can prove that is if you die with a smile on your face. Mark Twain said, "A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.", meaning you are only prepared to pull the trigger if you know you have lived your life to the fullest, and I would like to believe that for