Physician Assisted Suicide Analysis

This article relates a lot to the religious spectrum of what it means to participate in physician assisted suicide. This type of argumentative essay seems to be an argument of evaluation because it is evaluating criteria and measuring it against certain standards. In this case, it is the standards of the Catholic Church as well as the standards that doctors practice and the morals they carry. It also is an argument of definition. There is scientific data but the facts can be provoked with certain evidence or proof.

There are many allusions in this work. They allude to the Catholic Church and you can see these when the information about physician assisted suicide is talked about and it shows the opposite and the truths of the Catholic Church.

There is also a lot of parallelism. There are examples given in order of 1,2,3. There is a lot of emotion and pull of ethos because it is an ethical subject and about religion. In some people’s eyes, the Catholic Church is a trustworthy but in others, it is not because they seem to be an overbearing church that tries to control the state at times.
Some fallacies I see is a scare tactic. I see this because it is an ethical issue that can hurt people. In the arguments against physician assisted suicide, the author is using logic to fear the ones reading the article. This seems to be because of the religious reasons. I think this argument is sort of reaching its target audience. This is written for scholarly people because of the website it was found on, but it also seems its for religious people because of the religious background it is given. This article was hard to read and putting it in a summery for the appropriate audience was even tougher because of the language used throughout the essay.