Euthanasia

             I have picked the topic of Euthanasia because I believe people that suffer from a serious illness should have the right to die by euthanasia. All Americans have the right to die because the Constitution grants us the right to privacy and the right to pursue happiness. People should have the right to take their lives if they are totally dependent on others or machines. Ones that depend on other people to care for them only feel like a burden, which in turn just makes the situation worse than it already was. If I was ever this sick I would definitely want the choice of Euthanasia and this speech will convince you to want it also.
             Euthanasia is the practice of ending a life to release an individual from suffering an incurable disease or intolerable pain. The doctor or in some cases, a family member, uses injections, weapons, or other means of killing to act out euthanasia. But euthanasia is usually gentle and quiet. In most of the cases of euthanasia, the patient died by lethal injection or certain life support systems were withheld. There are many types of euthanasia. The most common type is voluntary euthanasia, which is euthanasia that is preformed at the will of the patient. Having to lie in bed twenty-four hours a day is no way to live a life. People that suffer from a serious illness should have the right to die by euthanasia. In 1991, a national telephone survey was conducted which posed the
             question, "If you were terminally ill, what would you want for yourself?" Fifty-two percent of one thousand four in the US said that they'd consider assisted suicide or euthanasia. Among the reasons cited were that the people wouldn't want to burden others, live in pain, or be dependent on machines. All Americans have the right to die because the Constitution grants us the right to privacy and the right to pursue happiness. People should have the right to take their lives if they are totally dependent on others or mach...

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