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John just lays in his bed, in anguish thinking about how his life has been and what could've been. His sadness is only surpassed by the extreme pain he feels in his head. He describes the pain as intense sharp moments as if someone where hammering a nail into his brain. John has been told that his pain is due top an undetected malignant tumor in his brain. John is then told that he will die a very painful death. Of course, he will be placed in meds to help alleviate the pain, but still John will suffer. John knows that he will suffer and his family as well as they see him dying slowly and painfully. Thus, John asks his doctor if he can "relieve" him of his pain.
Every there's hundreds of terminally ill patients that wish to be relieved of their pain somehow. They don't want to suffer like in John case. However, mercy killing, euthanasia, is not allowed.
I became interested in euthanasia because I'm an advocate of doctor-assisted suicide.
Therefore, in my speech I will provide......

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