Mercy Killing Persuasive Speech

If a person is on the line of death in a long and slow way, they should have the right to end their suffrage and life in a comfortable way. This can be done by something known as mercy killing and sometimes known as euthanasia. Mercy killing is when a doctor directly ends with their patient’s life, this is done in order to put the patient out of its suffrage and relieve them from an incurable and terminal condition. It creates an enormous controversy if mercy killing should be allowed to any human being, it is thought to be unlawful and is concerned to be murder, but I say what human being with a painful and terminal condition would want to suffer until their natural death comes about. Many patients who suffer from excessive pain have asked their doctors and even their love once to put them out of their misery, but due to the laws putting them out of their misery is considered murder. An example is Matthew Donnelly, who was suffering from skin cancer for more than thirty years. …show more content…
Just like the European Declaration of Human Rights guarantees Americans should have the right to refuse to suffer and live a life that is no longer productive to them. “It should be considered as much of a crime to make someone live who with justification does not wish to continue as it is to take life without consent,” stated Faye Girsh, EdD (chart 2).
One of the major claims that the opposing side of mercy killing has is that what if it gets out of control like it did in Holland. What if people start abusing the law? In the article If Mercy Killing Becomes Legal we read that, “In 1990, 1,030 Dutch patients were killed WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT” (par 11). But in “Debatewise,” we see that in other countries like the Netherlands and Switzerland, where the law is legal, they have strict legal guidelines that help ensure that the law is not abused and is not used in an improper