Persuasive Speech On Euthanasia

Think about it a second, you are old and very sick. You have lived a great life but nowadays all you can do is lie down in your bed. You can’t do anything by yourself and other people have to help you with things like eating, showering and going to the bathroom. You have accepted your faith and you are ready to die, since you have nothing to live for anymore. But it can take you several weeks, months or even years to be able to end your pain. Euthanasia is the last way to be able to find peace, but you live in Sweden, and in Sweden it is illegal to use euthanasia.

First of all I want to clear out some things about euthanasia. It isn’t for people with depression or mental illnesses, it is for people that have incurable diseases. People that really want to die since they feel that they have nothing left to live for anymore and who don’t have much time left anyway. It’s important to remember that it’s only for people who really WANT to die. If we think about it in that way we can already now kill arguments about people trusting less in the health care if euthanasia is implemented in a country.

Of course I can understand that you don’t want your sick grandmother or grandfather to die prematurely, but would you rather want him or her to suffer?

Every person should be able to decide what they want and don’t want to do in their own life. T UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights rights states that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person, but we should