Assisted Suicide Persuasive Speech

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I feel that I can confidently say that you and I have never had to experience pain so sever before that we wished it would all just end. However, for many, they experience this kind of pain every day. Assisted suicide gives these people an option to die with dignity and not have to endure the pain and agony that comes with having a terminal illness. It is very sorrowful to see so many people wanting to be euthanized due to the amount of pain they are in. This happens all over the United States and especially in Florida, with at least 363,700 people suffering from cancer according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). That’s over a quarter million of your people experiencing this pain daily. Why wouldn’t you want to help the people that elected …show more content…
You will not only help these people with sustaining their right to decide their own fate, but you will also end the patients suffering and reduce the financial burden that the family must take on for years possibly after their loved one is deceased. Finally, what about the Hippocratic oath? By preserving a person’s right to deciding their fate, it is allowing them to take control over their illness and decide when it’s their time to go. By having this option, it will preserve their dignity and give them peace when it is time. By passing a law such as Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” act, you will be allowing the prescribed “lethal dose [be] self-administrated, to avoid voluntary euthanasia” (The Economist). This not only puts the life of the patient in their own hands allowing them to die with dignity, but also makes them rethink if they really want to make this decision. If the constant nights awake in agony and the days full of watching their beloved family crying and praying that a miracle will happen. All of these things can be put to rest with a shot. All the pain and sorrow can go away. And as they take their
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