Assisted Suicide/voluntary Euthanasia

Debate 7th hour

Topic Proposal

Assisted Suicide/Voluntary Euthanasia

Resolution: The United States should administer a controlled system of assisted suicide.

• It is imperative to the resolution provide a fairly specific set of criteria to explain when assisted suicide would be legal and when it would not. For these reasons I decided that control of this should be given to the law system just as it is for sentencing a criminal to death. This would avoid the complication of murders going uncharged due to claiming that the person requested assistance in taking their life.

• This issue is very debatable and has two very evenly weighted sides to argue. There are so many different arguments possible on each side of the case such as its morally wrong to do this, or it’s the people right to choose to die etc. The fact that the majority of people considering this are terminally ill people. These people only have a horrific future ahead of them; shouldn’t they be allowed to choose the manner of their own end, and die with dignity? It can also be argued that it is our moral duty to stop someone from committing suicide, so in the same way you should help a person with a terminal illness let help them die.

• This topic is very researchable. Many other