Persuasive Speech Outline
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to believe that euthanasia frequently occurs in America, and to take action to change laws.
Thesis Statement: We will examine the problem of euthanasia and the reasons it should be illegal, by focusing on one clear problem, one specific solution, and the advantages of this particular solution.
I. Attention Step
A. Gain and Maintain Attention: Karen Ann Quinlan was taken to Newton Memorial Hospital after friends found her not breathing. In order to keep her respiratory system functioning, she was put on life support. On June 9, 1976, Karen’s parents cut off all life support (need source cite here).
B. Relate Topic to Self: When I was twelve, my grandfather …show more content…
III. Satisfaction Step
A. State the Solution: I believe, the solution to this problem is to establish laws that would enforce severe punishment on those who euthanasize.
B. Explain the Solution: If my plan is enacted, people convicted of euthanasia would be sentenced to the same minimum jail sentence of a person who committed first degree murder – 20 years to life in prison.
C. Show the Audience how the Solution will help: If those who euthanize are convicted and spend the rest of their lives in jail, other doctors will be unwilling to take the risk.
D. Overcoming Possible Objections: Although you may be thinking that the quality of life is more important than the quantity of life, and that people have the right to die when they choose, Samuel F. Hunter states in regard to the role of doctors, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “let us not be angels of death but ministers of healing…and hope.” In other words, it should not be a doctor’s role to end life, only to help sustain …show more content…
IV. Visualization Step
A. Future without the Solution: If we allow euthanasia to continue, the United States will become more like the Netherlands where Euthanasia is legal.
B. Appeal for Audience to Accept Solution: There are doctors who are willing to help people.
1. Dr. Paven Grover, a pain specialist, states that he could have helped Margaret Garrish, Kevorkian’s twenty-first victim, who was not suffering from a life threatening disease.
2. We all know that laws help to deter crime.
Transition: Since we’ve looked at what the future might hold, let’s take action as individuals to ensure we don’t end up like the Netherlands has.
V. Action Step
A. Provide an alternative to behavior: Each of us can sign this petition today that I will send to our Congressional representative. This petition asks Congress to pass laws to change the penalty for those convicted of assisted suicide.
B. Final Thought: After Karen Quinlan was taken off of the respirator, she began to breath on her own. Karen lived for nine more years. The outcome of her life could not be predicted by a doctor; let’s punish those who think they can. Works
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to believe that euthanasia frequently occurs in America, and to take action to change laws.
Thesis Statement: We will examine the problem of euthanasia and the reasons it should be illegal, by focusing on one clear problem, one specific solution, and the advantages of this particular solution.
I. Attention Step
A. Gain and Maintain Attention: Karen Ann Quinlan was taken to Newton Memorial Hospital after friends found her not breathing. In order to keep her respiratory system functioning, she was put on life support. On June 9, 1976, Karen’s parents cut off all life support (need source cite here).
B. Relate Topic to Self: When I was twelve, my grandfather …show more content…
III. Satisfaction Step
A. State the Solution: I believe, the solution to this problem is to establish laws that would enforce severe punishment on those who euthanasize.
B. Explain the Solution: If my plan is enacted, people convicted of euthanasia would be sentenced to the same minimum jail sentence of a person who committed first degree murder – 20 years to life in prison.
C. Show the Audience how the Solution will help: If those who euthanize are convicted and spend the rest of their lives in jail, other doctors will be unwilling to take the risk.
D. Overcoming Possible Objections: Although you may be thinking that the quality of life is more important than the quantity of life, and that people have the right to die when they choose, Samuel F. Hunter states in regard to the role of doctors, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “let us not be angels of death but ministers of healing…and hope.” In other words, it should not be a doctor’s role to end life, only to help sustain …show more content…
IV. Visualization Step
A. Future without the Solution: If we allow euthanasia to continue, the United States will become more like the Netherlands where Euthanasia is legal.
B. Appeal for Audience to Accept Solution: There are doctors who are willing to help people.
1. Dr. Paven Grover, a pain specialist, states that he could have helped Margaret Garrish, Kevorkian’s twenty-first victim, who was not suffering from a life threatening disease.
2. We all know that laws help to deter crime.
Transition: Since we’ve looked at what the future might hold, let’s take action as individuals to ensure we don’t end up like the Netherlands has.
V. Action Step
A. Provide an alternative to behavior: Each of us can sign this petition today that I will send to our Congressional representative. This petition asks Congress to pass laws to change the penalty for those convicted of assisted suicide.
B. Final Thought: After Karen Quinlan was taken off of the respirator, she began to breath on her own. Karen lived for nine more years. The outcome of her life could not be predicted by a doctor; let’s punish those who think they can. Works