Persuasive Essay Against Assisted Suicide

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Watching someone sit in a hospital room with a terminal illness, slowly wasting away to nothing but a body of pain and broken thoughts is not something that anyone wants to witness. Should we the people allow patients the right to put an end to it all before reaching this stage in their disease? Many religious people believe that this is morally wrong, against God’s plan, and that it undermines the value of an individual’s life. Even though assisted suicide has been legalized in some nations, the arguments on whether or not it’s immoral continue.
When looking at the American Medical Association opinion survey, “fifty three percent of people believe that assisted suicide is okay only under certain circumstances; ten percent believe that it’s okay as …show more content…

Those who disagree believe that people aren’t valuing the quality of life; however, it seems that those patients who choose assisted suicide often focus their last few good days on what’s really important, family and making good memories. Loved ones aren’t losing years of life because of assisted suicide, “More than ninety percent of assisted deaths shorten life by less than a month- most of them by less than a week” (A.C. Grayling). Therefore they really aren’t loosing that much time, and during those months their families would only get to stand by helplessly watching them suffer. Assisted suicide had been made into a much bigger deal than it actually is. Those opposed to the idea of euthanasia need to understand that only a small percent will actually want to proceed with this, and that small percent contains those who are greatly suffering, which is a right that ought to be respected by the people. Most patients want to live and fight for as long as they possibly can, therefore the death rates for assisted suicide will not be that

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