Euthanasia Persuasive Research Paper

A girl is lying in a hospital bed, she has a disease that causes her to live a short and painful life. She doesn't want to go through that kind of pain even if it is for a short time, but what is a short time? A couple days, a couple months, maybe even a couple years? Who would ever want to go through pain for that long? That's why Euthanasia should be legalized, thousands of people go through pain every day, and wake up wondering “Is this gonna be my last day to see my friends, and family?” No one should go through pain like that physically or mentally. Euthanasia is “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.” I feel that if people are gonna suffer then they should have the choice to die …show more content…
No one thinks of their death and desires it to be painful or horrible, when they think of their death they think of painless and peaceful. But your death being painless and peaceful isn’t always the case not everyone dies painlessly. Although, every one should be granted the chance to have a painless and peaceful death. If you had a grandma or grandpa in the hospital dying, but is suffering in pain would you want to watch her die in pain, or would you want to watch her die pain free and with dignity? Most people would choose painless and with dignity. Euthanasia provides that so why wouldn't you want to let them die painlessly and with dignity? Do we have the right to compare their experiences day by day, having experienced none of them, and say that they don’t deserve to die with dignity, the way they want to die? The answer is, of course, no, we have no right to deny them the dignified death that we ourselves naturally desire. To do so would be selfish and we would effectively be imposing our own desires of that person, thereby restricting their freedom to self-determine even if it is in the most basic