Death Tax Persuasive Essay

We are culturally ingrained from an early age that life is precious and each day is a gift. Life should not be squandered but preserved.  We are encouraged to live with a purpose, cherish our loved ones and live life to its fullest. But what if life becomes too physically painful to endure, often experienced by many terminally ill patients suffering an incurable disease, or a chronically ill elderly person who lacks the ability to thrive?  For forty-five day’s I watched my chronically ill mother languish away in a hospice care facility. The experience was emotionally and financially draining, and I began questioning whether a person should have the right to choose when and how to end their life. In the United States, assisted dying is a widely debated and passionate issue. Opponents argue preserving life, regardless of how much a person is suffering, is an ethical and moral responsibility, determined only by a higher power.  At the other end of the spectrum are those who support a person’s right to end their life with dignity at a time of their choosing.   Wouldn’t my mother’s suffering been greatly reduced if her doctor was legally and ethically permitted to administer a lethal cocktail of drugs to end her life quickly and painlessly? Wouldn’t the prevailing memory of my mother see her in a better light instead of helplessly watching her undignified death? To deny terminal and chronically ill people the freedom to end their

[1]Euthanasia, derived from Greek literally means good death. It is the act or practice of killing someone who is terminally ill or injured in order to prevent any more suffering. Some people could call it mercy killing. But is killing someone prematurely right? Why haven't more countries legalized euthanasia? Ask someone involved in caring of the terminally ill, they would simply argue that it is a slippery slope to assisted murder.

Many terminally-ill patients give up hope when treatments are no longer available to help them and hospice care is given to them as an option. However, hospice care has proven itself to provide the best quality care for the last six months of the dying. The purpose of hospice is to provide the best care for terminally-ill patients at the end stage of their lives. Hospice offer services to support too many aspects a patient’s life such as medical, legal, spiritual care. Hospice includes art therapists, music therapists, and certified chaplains on the palliative team.

The Republican party feels that taxes are a burden on the people and that the more they can lower taxes the better. Their ideology is that the more they lower taxes the more money people will have and entail their will be more activity the throughout the economy. “It has been longstanding Republican policy to favor laissez-faire economics; this means that government should play an extremely limited role in economic matters and that taxes should be kept to the minimal amount necessary to fund only “necessary” functions”(MLA). The Republicans believe that by taking the minimum amount for taxes and playing only a small role in the economy it will thrive on its own.

The right to die has been a topic of many debates. People are either strongly opposed to the act, saying things like “In no situation is suicide the right thing to do,” while others argue the exact opposite. No compromises are made as an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, but this is life or death. The answer cannot be as simple as yes or no. We all go through difficulties in our lives, some even struggle with depression at times, but unlike those who are depressed or going through a rough patch, there are those who are doomed to deal with physical pain the rest of their lives. How could we deprive them the choice of a painless death, when letting them die slowly on a hospital bed is the only other option? Physician assisted suicide for those who are terminally ill should be legalized in America, because physician assisted suicide saves those who are hurting from living the rest of their lives in agony.

They believe that surpluses in our budget has caused us Americans to be overtaxed, which can our financial success and hold back, and even reverse, the country’s economic growth. Republicans also want to place reasonable limitations on the marginal(tax) rate. This would be defined as however much of the tax that is paid on every additional dollar of income. They believe that this rate punishes the people who have worked hard for everything they have and invested. As Larry Hogan likes to put it, “Let’s find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.” This is really saying that we should primarily focus on the good things that tax cuts can bring for the status and growth of our economy, instead of just looking at the negative. Tax cuts can actually save us a lot of money in the long run, due to the fact that we won’t be spending all that extra money that just gets stored up for safe-keeping later on. Statistically, the United States is near twenty trillion dollars in debt. This is mainly because we spend more that we take in, which is a horrible way to do things. Steve Chabot once said, “Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.” If we lower how much we are spending, we won’t have to worry about the aftermath of

They want to raise certain taxes to provide capital for government spending, which in turn generates business. They oppose tax cuts that provide relief to the wealthy. Their views on taxes also include the belief that to maintain the tax code and system is necessary. Republican believes that tax is important but must be done in the right way. The budget surpluses have caused the American citizen to be overtaxed which is hampering their financial prosperity and also possibly reversing the growth of the economy of the country.

They believe that taxes should be a flat rate tax (same tax rate for all income regardless of their income). The Republican party is not opposed to tax cuts for lower and middle class because they believe that lower taxes and lower interest rates would allow more families to become homeowners and that is in the national interest. On healthcare they opposed Obamacare because they believe that private companies should provide healthcare in the free market. The Republican party believe if the government runs or get tangled with the healthcare system it will decrease the proficiency and the standard of care the healthcare system can provide. They also believe it will compromise the relationship between the patient and doctor which will increase waiting time within the healthcare

The right to die debate has been an ongoing dispute between opposing sides of this controversial topic. The right to die is the decision made by an individual to die with dignity when they are still capable of continuing their life with the necessary support and equipment. It is a voluntary decision by an individual who is regarded as terminally ill to commit suicide with the refusal of any type of life support that sustains their life. Fatally ill patients who choose to end their own life can do so through physician prescribed medications.

As previously mentioned, the candidates lacked focus. A common theme at the debate was their indirect responses. When asked a question, the candidates would engage in a monologue criticizing the Democratic Party (popular targets were Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama). The candidates frequently went over their allotted response time without offering a substantive response to questions asked of them. Marco Rubio was especially guilty of this, as evidenced by moderators chiding him for being off topic. When asked of the country’s financial situation, Rubio, Bush, and Cruz fervently agreed that Clinton should be banned from the White House and the military needed to be rebuilt. However, there was never

In March of 1998, a woman named Brittany Maynard received the news of her diagnosis of stage 4 Glioblastoma, with a maximum of 6 months to live. She became the face of the ‘right to die movement’ when she decided to move to Oregon with her husband and mother to utilize the Death with Dignity act. Five months prior in November of 1977, the Oregon Death with Dignity act was passed. The law had allowed terminally ill patients who had been given 6 months or less to live the choice to decide whether to live life or not. The law does not include those who have been on life support nor does it include those who have not voluntarily asked the physician to help them commit suicide (CNN). Many people are stuck on the idea that physician assisted suicide violates the life-saving tradition of medicine, However, physician assisted suicide should be legalized for suffering patients to have one last request for a peaceful death.

Imagine lying in a small hospital bed for three years and never being able to leave again. The excruciating pain from the radiation that is being injected into you every day. Knowing that even with the newest technology, nothing could cure your illness. Instead being in constant pain, you could end it all. Recently, Colorado approved a law called Proposition 106 that would allow those who have less than six months to live to “die with dignity”. There are many qualifications a patient needs in order to ask for the pill, including multiple doctors who say that they are mentally stable, have voluntarily asked for the medication, and must be 18 years of age or older. Only five other states have granted assisted suicide, including Montana, Vermont, Oregon, California, and Washington. Thousands of people selfishly voted against Proposition 106 without

The format of the debate was a total failure. Moderators sought to put the candidates at odds which led to the moderators losing control of the debate especially with how many candidates were on stage, it was chaotic. As for moderators, it should have been just one moderator Jake Tapper because his co-host Dana Bash and conservative moderator only got to ask three questions during the course of three hour show. Also, three hours for one debate plus count the previous low-tier debate, a total of five hours in which two hours were dedicated to Trump bashing is way too long to even deal with. By count, this debate focused 44 percent of questions on Trump with 26 questions having Trump’s name on it in. On Veteran issues or Obamacare, zero percent

Throughout the history of the entire world, things have constantly been changing. Societies have been created and flourished, humans evolved, new technologies have been created, and new theories discovered. However, with so many advancements in the human world, there are some things that cannot be stopped from happening or change. Organisms can get an illness at any moment in their lives from many different causes. Some illnesses cannot be cured, can cause unbearable symptoms or pain, and can cause you to lose your life, such as cancer. If a person is terminally ill, their illness will be the cause of their death no matter how much treatment is received.

The debate over the use of euthanasia is ever growing. This is due to the fact of constant increases in medical advances. Medical advances are growing the number of medicines one can be given before palliative care is an option. The main concern of the debate is whether trying new treatments and medicines are necessary before palliative care is given. Two articles will be analyzed using the Aristotelian method. Both articles are valid, but the New York Times article written by Haider Javed Warraich offers a complete perspective using all three persuasive appeals compared to the article written by Terry Pratchett for The Guardian, which the majority is written on emotion.