Persuasive Essay On Life Support
This paper will be discussing the controversial topic of life support. Should it be allowed, should it be mandatory for a period of time after pronounced brain death? Or should the person in question be made the sole decision maker in the event of there untimely death and if no prior decision is made they let the person die. These are the topics we will be discussing in this paper.
On one side miracles do happen but on the other at what cost , well one woman named danielle didn't care what the price was as long as she had a second chance at a life with her husband. Matt her husband had been in a bad motorcycle accident and went into acoma just 7 months after getting married , but even when the doctors gave her the recommendation to take him off of life support she stood fast and right there by matt's side. The doctors finally released matt to go home and be cared for by his wife and his mother one …show more content…
First off, today we have an organ trade deeply rooted in india and china the donors get paid roughly between 1-10000 dollars per kidney a lot of people would argue that that's not a lot for your kidney i mean you only have 2. So the point being is that everything has a price. What would you pay for your life?” Daily costs were greatest on intensive care unit day 1 (mechanical ventilation, 10,794 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 6,667 dollars), decreased on day 2 (mechanical ventilation:, 4,796 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,496 dollars), and became stable after day 3 (mechanical ventilation, 3,968 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,184 dollars)’’..so in the past excerpt it shows it is thousands of dollars a day just to be on life support not including other expenses.so based just on cost alone is it really worth being in financial turmoil for the rest of your life hanging on to a glimmer of hope that your loved one may wake up one
On one side miracles do happen but on the other at what cost , well one woman named danielle didn't care what the price was as long as she had a second chance at a life with her husband. Matt her husband had been in a bad motorcycle accident and went into acoma just 7 months after getting married , but even when the doctors gave her the recommendation to take him off of life support she stood fast and right there by matt's side. The doctors finally released matt to go home and be cared for by his wife and his mother one …show more content…
First off, today we have an organ trade deeply rooted in india and china the donors get paid roughly between 1-10000 dollars per kidney a lot of people would argue that that's not a lot for your kidney i mean you only have 2. So the point being is that everything has a price. What would you pay for your life?” Daily costs were greatest on intensive care unit day 1 (mechanical ventilation, 10,794 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 6,667 dollars), decreased on day 2 (mechanical ventilation:, 4,796 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,496 dollars), and became stable after day 3 (mechanical ventilation, 3,968 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,184 dollars)’’..so in the past excerpt it shows it is thousands of dollars a day just to be on life support not including other expenses.so based just on cost alone is it really worth being in financial turmoil for the rest of your life hanging on to a glimmer of hope that your loved one may wake up one