You're living a life of pain, suffering and anguish. You're flat on your back, on a stone cold bed - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You have no control over your body. You cannot see, hear or speak to your loved ones. You're dieing. Your inner workings of your body are slowly but constantly diminishing and there is no cure for your disease. Even at the best of times, life is a titanic struggle. Put yourself in this position. Imagine your life is one of pain, of suffering and of anguish. Better still, imagine your mother, or your best friend is in this very same position. You would want this person to be freed of these problems. You would want this person to be able to painlessly drift off into a deep sleep and leave there problems on there stone bed. You would want euthanasia to be legal.
Church of Euthanasia. About Death and Dying. About...
Martin Luther King leaning on a lectern. Deutsch: ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil R...Good afternoon distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. I do not come here with pithy arguments. Rather, I come before you with a plan. A plan to rid Australia of un-necessary pain, suffering and anguish. A plan to stop our wasting of scarce medical resources on those who are incurable and those who have no drive to live.
Over the next 10 minutes, I will persuade each and every one of you that it is essential that euthanasia is legalised. I will do this by covering three main areas. These being the moral justification for euthanasia, secondly the economic importance of euthanasia and finally I will discuss the basic human rights of an individual.
Ladies and gentlemen, my argument for the moral justification of euthanasia rests on the premise of mercy and compassion, two ideals which are essential to human dignity. In most cases when a person requests euthanasia...
Wow
A very powerful speech. It was emotionally rousing and its arguments were well set up and executed. Even the tone of the speech was flawless throughout.
Though i felt that you focused on economics a tiny fraction too much. The purpose of this speech is to argue for humanity and emphasis on economics, "wasting doctor's time" doesnt kind of fit into the tone. It fits into the bigger picture, yeah but not in the tone you have set.
Apart from that your speech was pithy, even though you proclaim otherwise.
Well done.
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