Assisted Suicide Persuasive Speech
Imagine you just received bad news from your doctor. 6 months to live if you are lucky. You are suffering from chronic pain that no medicine will ease. You are slowly wasting away while suffering from delirium, not being able to breathe, and you have no appetite from being nauseated constantly and you're constantly throwing up. There is no chance to survive and death is the only cure. You have made out your will and said your goodbyes. You are ready to die If you could choose assisted suicide would you?
Chronically ill patients who have no chance of survival and who only have six months or less to live should be able to choose to live. Assisted suicide should become legal throughout the United States. It would provide patients with the dignity they deserve while limiting suffering and humiliation. So far it is legal in only five states including …show more content…
If there was a cure for their disease they would choose to live. Many of these diseases cause terrible deaths. It is not painless or pleasant. No one wants or needs to experience these kinds of deaths.
Terminal illnesses such as cancer not only affect the patient, but the families of the patients suffer as well. Medicine can only do so much and when it doesn't work like it should the family has to see their loved one suffer unnecessarily. Often that is the last memory they have of their loved one and it should be a good memory instead of a bad one. If chronically ill patients could choose to die they could have their families with them to say goodbye and be at peace about every thing. There would be no regrets or what ifs.
Medical bills would also be cut down if assisted suicide was legal. Hospital bills are not cheap. Most people cannot afford to stay in the hospital trying to prevent the inevitable. The cost of maintaining a dying persons life costs thousands of dollars a month. Most people can't afford that. When bills are ran up the family is left to deal with
Chronically ill patients who have no chance of survival and who only have six months or less to live should be able to choose to live. Assisted suicide should become legal throughout the United States. It would provide patients with the dignity they deserve while limiting suffering and humiliation. So far it is legal in only five states including …show more content…
If there was a cure for their disease they would choose to live. Many of these diseases cause terrible deaths. It is not painless or pleasant. No one wants or needs to experience these kinds of deaths.
Terminal illnesses such as cancer not only affect the patient, but the families of the patients suffer as well. Medicine can only do so much and when it doesn't work like it should the family has to see their loved one suffer unnecessarily. Often that is the last memory they have of their loved one and it should be a good memory instead of a bad one. If chronically ill patients could choose to die they could have their families with them to say goodbye and be at peace about every thing. There would be no regrets or what ifs.
Medical bills would also be cut down if assisted suicide was legal. Hospital bills are not cheap. Most people cannot afford to stay in the hospital trying to prevent the inevitable. The cost of maintaining a dying persons life costs thousands of dollars a month. Most people can't afford that. When bills are ran up the family is left to deal with