Persuasive Speech On Physician Assisted Suicide

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Suicide, something that happens everyday around the world, for different reasons, but that's not the suicide I want to talk about. I am going to be talking about weather people with terminal illness should have the right to physician assisted suicide(death) or PAS? Meaning that a person that is on the verge of dying of an illness that can't ever be cured and usually results in death, should they have the option to have a “doctor, knowingly and intentionally providing the person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide, including counseling about lethal doses of drugs, prescribing such lethal doses or supplying the drugs." should thais be aloud? Yes, I do think that people with terminal illness should have the right to PAS, for many reasons, one big reason right of the bat is that it will end their suffering. I feel as if a person that is dying and knowing that they will never be better, they should have the right to do anything that follows along with their own state of well being. I know personally if I were to ever have a terminal illness, that I wouldn't want to be lying in bed and just suffering with the thought that I will die one day and not know when, I wouldn't want to look sick and become weaker and weaker everyday because my body is shutting down little by little. For some family and …show more content…

Not everyone will believe in PAS to be a right for people that are dying of an illness but for others they see PAS as an option to allow the person suffering to die with dignity, on their own time and at their own peace. In the five states: California, Oregon, New Mexico, Washington, and vermont, have all legalized the practice of PAS. PAS is something that is not always used for the reason that in the year of 2013 where it is legal there are not much demand for

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