Death Without Dignity: Article Analysis

Annabelle Gurwitch is an American actress who is also, known as an author. Annabelle was born in November of 1961 in the great state of Alabama she is 55 today and living with her loving husband Jeff. Annabelle has written an article called Death Without Dignity, that article has caught my attention. In the article Annabelle’s friend Robin is in the hospital dying of cancer, she is in a lot of pain and is begging for Annabelle and her other friends to take her life by giving her an overdose of pain medication. Robins death ends up worse than is should’ve been, so Annabelle wrote this article to show that if euthanasia would have been legal her friend Robin wouldn’t have suffered from such a terrible death. Annabelle fails to imply good ethos, pathos, and logos in the following quotes from her article …show more content…
Annabelle makes her readers feel no sorrow for herself or her friends when she talks about how Robins death didn’t go as planned. When Annabelle is trying to use good ethos she fails to do so because she shows in her article that she has no idea what she is doing and is basically going in blind to this crazy idea her and her friends had. When Annabelle is writing under the pathos portion of her article she does a bad job again because she is supposed to get the audience on her side of the argument when in reality she is pushing her readers away making them realize that Annabelle shouldn’t have given her friend Robin any unnecessary medication to kill her. When Annabelle is trying to imply good logos she fails to do so because she is supposed to show the readers that her argument is reasonable. She fails to do so when she explains that she killed her friend, Annabelle should have gone to court and fought for friend to get euthanized like she wanted instead of giving her an overdose of medication which Annabelle should’ve gone to jail