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Persuasive Esay Topic: Physician Assisted-Suicide
After you find a credible source that can be used for your persuasive essay, identify it. Then, explain how the source fared with the C.R.A.A.P test by answering the following questions in one fully developed paragraph:
- What were the total points the source earned on the test?
- Where did it earn the most points? How did it earn these points?
- Where did it earn the least points? Why did it lose points here?
- How will this source help support the main argument (or counterargument) of your essay?
The C.R.A.A.P. Test Worksheet
The following questions will help you determine whether or not your source is reliable. Answer each of the questions for each category below. Once you’ve answered each question in a category, assign the category a numerical score between 1 and 10, with 1 meaning the source does not meet the criteria of the category at all and 10 meaning the source meets the criteria of the category excellently. Then, add up the scores to determine whether the source passes the (C.R.A.A.P.) test!
Source Title:
Category 1: Currency
Category 1 Score:
· When was the information published?
· Has the information been revised or updated since?
· Is the information current or out-of-date?
Category 2: Relevance
Category 2 Score:
· Does the information relate to your project?
· Have you looked at a variety other sources? Do other sources meet your needs more effectively?
· Who is the intended audience of the source?
Category 3: Authority
Category 3 Score:
· Who is the author?
· What are the author’s credentials or organizational affiliations?
· What are the author’s qualifications to write on the topic?
Category 4: Accuracy
Category 4 Score:
· Is the information supported by evidence?
· Has the information been reviewed or referred?
· Does the language or tone seem biased or objective?
Category 5: Purpose
Category 5 Score:
· What is the author’s purpose? To inform? Persuade? Entertain?
· Is the information fact or opinion?
· Does the point of view seem to be objective or biased?
Understanding your score:
Below 30: Unacceptable
30-34: Questionable
35-39: Average
40-44: Good
45-50: Excellent
TOTAL SCORE:
Running head: PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE MIND MAP 1
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE MIND MAP 2
Physician-Assisted Suicide Mind Map
Main topic: why should it be illegalized?
Sub-points:
1. Doctors must treat patients following Hippocratic Oath proclaims
2. Physicians should practice palliative care instead of using lethal drugs to kill terminally ill patients.
Main topic: Euthanasia is harmful because it doesn’t allow people to see human life as sacred
Sub-topics:
1. The Hippocratic Oath isn’t compatible with Euthanasia
2. Analyze the risk in providing state mandates for or against doctor-assisted suicide.
Main topic: consequences of legalizing PAS
Sub-topics:
1. Decreased physician professionalism
2. the possibility of error
3. A diminished physician-patient relationship, and
4. A slippery slope toward the practice of euthanasia.
Main topic: what we can do to make it illegal?
Sub-topics:
1. Practice hospice care that allows people to die with dignity.
2. To relieve pain instead of killing.
3. To help friends, patients and families face up to death.
Keywords: physician-assisted suicide, Hippocratic Oath, lethal-medications, palliative care, hospice care, legalization, and illegalization.
Main topic: Physician-assisted suicide should be illegal
Main Idea 1:
Euthanasia is harmful because it doesn’t allow people to see human life as sacred.
A. The Hippocratic Oath isn’t compatible with Euthanasia.
1. Physician-assisted suicide according to Brueck & Sulmasy (2019) is the point whereby doctors provide a platform for ending the life of a terminally ill patient.
2. The Hippocratic Oath is the standards that doctors are expected to maintain.
B. Euthanasia encourages abuse, allowing doctors to justify murder by framing it in compassionate terms.
1. Laws were written to protect people from killing.
2. The abuse of sedation techniques can be euthanasia.
Main Idea 2:
the quality of life for the past years has been increased by the technological advancement.
A. Before, there were no breakthroughs with the opportunity of saving lives and later history will help save even more lives.
1. Modern respirators and defibrillator are examples of Innovations that been used in medical technology to correct abnormal heartbeats and saving lives (Byock, 2016).
2. Medical response trauma teams are the current recommended executive nursing policies used during the care of terminally ill patients (Knaplund, 2010).
B. Despite these remarkable breakthroughs that help those badly injured, the law becomes vague and allows more opportunities for misinterpretation on defining death.
1. The President’s Commission forced the U.S Supreme Court and healthcare facilities to make tough decisions regarding death.
2. Society views made gradual dying as a medical crisis instead of accepting a natural process of life as a norm.
Main Idea 3:
hospice care is the alternative care used by doctors to reduce the pain of terminally-ill patients instead of ending a life (Elmore, Wright & Paradis, 2018).
A. Hospice is a better alternative care than killing a patient.
1. Some thought dying that it made sense that a man chose to die in his house surrounded by family and made comfortably by hospice doctors and nurses.
2. A physician expressed his findings in Hospice, “You can only fail a patient if you fail to understand and respond to their needs (Brueck & Sulmasy, 2019).
B. Hospice gradually became known to help patients that know they only have a few months to live.
1. Palliative care is given to patients to ease their symptoms and pain.
2. Hospice care is given by doctors for as long time as possible as long as the terminally ill patient is improving (Byock, 2016).
Conclusion
Even though mercy killing remains to be a controversial topic, killing ought to never be legalized. Because of therapeutic advances made by innovation and analysts, they have discovered hospice care as an option for the in critical condition. Life is a valuable blessing. Killing opposes fundamental standards of life. Despite the fact that patients fear death and may see no hope, they should be continually helped to remember the alternatives in contrast to killing.
References
Byock, I. (2016). The case against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. The Oxford handbook of ethics at the end of life, 366.
Brueck, M. A., & Sulmasy, D. P. (2019). The genealogy of death: A chronology of US organizations promoting euthanasia and assisted suicide. Palliative & supportive care, 17(5), 604-608.
Elmore, J., Wright, D. K., & Paradis, M. (2018). Nurses’ moral experiences of assisted death: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research. Nursing Ethics, 25(8), 955-972.
Knaplund, K. S. (2010). Montana becomes third our state to allow physician aid in dying. American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law eReport, Forthcoming.
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OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
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Opposing Viewpoints
I think that the keywords that I use for my search are related to my topic and sub topic. That is why when I conduct my research; I get result that’s close to my topic of physician-assisted suicide. Some of my source has keywords that are almost exactly like my sub topics. Using the opposing viewpoints data base, I searched “Hippocratic Oath”, “hospice care”, and “physician-assisted suicide legalization.”
Source 1: Title: Hippocratic Oath – the majority are academic journals written within the last five years. There are very few videos and news articles. The journals are stressing the importance of complying with work ethics, standards and policies when treating patients – Author – Bennet, Coleman and Co. Ltd
Source 2: Title: hospice care – there are more news articles than other sources; many are about palliative care talking about patients who are struggling with chronic conditions not about the euthanasia practices. I need to narrow my search – Author, Kumon.
Source 3: Title; physician-assisted suicide legalization – there are 2147 news articles about physician-assisted suicide, many written within the past three years. Most of the articles are talking about the importance of legalizing assisted suicide to end the pain of terminally ill patients rather than talking about the value of human life and the consequences of assisted suicide – Author – Bates College.