The Negative Speech: The Persuasive Essay On Euthanasia

When you hear the word death or you hear that someone has died today in the news or on the television I know a lot of people think “Man, I feel sorry for the family that they have to go through that.” or they thank god that it was not them or their family members.” Sadly though people try to push away death and push away the fact that everyone dies at one point in time. This is even truer when they witness their own family member in the hospital with a critical condition that the doctors cannot fix even with modern medicines on the doctor’s side. Another such time would be when a person’s family member is diagnosed with an incurable sickness that is fatal. What would you do in that moment when “death is knocking on their door” or they are about to die? Some people may answer this question by saying keep them alive by using artificial means. I say no. I firmly believe that this is wrong and you are only prolonging their suffering. Euthanasia is what I believe is the right thing to

the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.” Now note it just said “extreme medical measures” keeping someone alive even though there is no chance of them ever recovering is considered an “extreme medical measure”. How is that fair to the person suffering if that is not what they would want? It say it is not, they do not know what is going on, but they are being kept alive by machines that do everything for them and they aren’t even able to go use the rest room for themselves. If that is not selfish I do not know what is. Now that I have said all of that most people would be getting mad and most likely say that I am just cold and hard. I may be but the truth hurts and death waits for no man it is colder and harder than any of my words could actually amount to