Reasons In 'Why I Hope To Die At 75'

A lot of authors who are writing an argument essay or an article, they love using three strategies to purse their audiences or readers into believing in their views of the argument and these three strategies are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. Ezekiel J. Emanuel wrote “Why I hope to Die at 75” because he wants his readers to understand that dying at 75 is the best thing a person can do for their family. Emanuel argues that living to be 75 years old is long enough for anyone. The idea of dying at 75 drives

Emanuel, the author uses Ethos to convince his readers that when a person turn 75 years old; he or she is not the same anymore from metal estate to the physical activities and that is why Emanuel prefer to die at 75 because he feels that by that time he will have no contribution to society. Death is something that people are going to experience in their lifetime. Emanuel believes that “ After 75 we are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic” (3). Everything changes after a person turn 75, because a study by Eileen Crimmins from the University of Southern California shows that “as people age, there is a progressive erosion of physical functioning; from 1998 throughout 2006, the loss of functional mobility in the elderly has increased and Crimmins concludes that there was an increase in the life expectancy with disease and a decrease in the years without disease. The same is true for functioning loss, an increase in expected years unable to function” (Emanuel “Why I hope to die at 75” 5). Even if a person decides to live longer than 75 years old that person will experience lack of mobility