Outline For Euthanasia Research Paper
Topic: Euthanasia
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: I want to persuade my audience to be against euthanasia.
Thesis: Legalizing Euthanasia Central Idea
In Hippocratic Oath, Hippocrates as a father of medicine swears, “I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan” (National Library of Medicine, p. 6). In other words, Hippocrates was against euthanasia. According to the Dictionary.com the definition of euthanasia is “the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially painful, disease or condition” (Dictionary.com, p.1). It is also called a mercy killing, some people think that this is a good decision and some don’t. I personally, believe that this is not right; an individual should go into the afterlife naturally. 1. On one side there are people that justify this act as helping a terminally ill individual end his/her sufferings. For example, when an individual was in a house fire and burnt sixty percent of his skin and is going to die but he chooses euthanasia in order to stop the pain. In that case he will die eventually and there are many painkillers that can soothe his pain …show more content…
You probably have a question on where it started. Well according to the History.com Adolf Hitler came up with this idea (History.com, p. 1). He ordered to kill all handicapped and mentally ill children. In addition, after that he moved on to adults and senior population. Hitler called it mercy killing because supposedly he was helping people to get out of their “misery” but it was a way of saving money.
I believe that euthanasia is not right, no matter from what angles you look at it, it is manslaughter and as a human being I would not follow Hitler’s way of dealing with sick and dependant people. We should respect life that was given to us by God and end it in a natural way because this is how we were
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: I want to persuade my audience to be against euthanasia.
Thesis: Legalizing Euthanasia Central Idea
In Hippocratic Oath, Hippocrates as a father of medicine swears, “I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan” (National Library of Medicine, p. 6). In other words, Hippocrates was against euthanasia. According to the Dictionary.com the definition of euthanasia is “the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially painful, disease or condition” (Dictionary.com, p.1). It is also called a mercy killing, some people think that this is a good decision and some don’t. I personally, believe that this is not right; an individual should go into the afterlife naturally. 1. On one side there are people that justify this act as helping a terminally ill individual end his/her sufferings. For example, when an individual was in a house fire and burnt sixty percent of his skin and is going to die but he chooses euthanasia in order to stop the pain. In that case he will die eventually and there are many painkillers that can soothe his pain …show more content…
You probably have a question on where it started. Well according to the History.com Adolf Hitler came up with this idea (History.com, p. 1). He ordered to kill all handicapped and mentally ill children. In addition, after that he moved on to adults and senior population. Hitler called it mercy killing because supposedly he was helping people to get out of their “misery” but it was a way of saving money.
I believe that euthanasia is not right, no matter from what angles you look at it, it is manslaughter and as a human being I would not follow Hitler’s way of dealing with sick and dependant people. We should respect life that was given to us by God and end it in a natural way because this is how we were