This text resembling a debate almost, regards the decision
to whether or not a woman who is pregnant should be taken off life support.
While she is the prime example of thousands of people who are brain-dead yet
remain alive through technological devices, the text analyzes the debate on
weather people on live-saving devices deserve to have the plug pulled on them.
The author of the text is Cynda Rushton, who specializes in
hospital ethics; therefore she specializes in this area of study and is face to
face with this incredibly difficult issue on a daily basis. While the text is
on an international source such as CNN, it suggests that the audience is any
particular citizen because this decision is quite controversial due to the many
different values people has when it comes to natural death, and keeping someone
alive who cannot be saved. The context of the text is recently, as this issue
regarding a pregnant woman on life support in addition to a teenaged girl who
also was on life support and the news of her was on national news sources. With
many examples of Americans faced this unimaginable decision about keeping their
loved one alive as a vegetable, the bigger picture, or propose of this text is
to analyze whether or not a law or just a moral code that is the family’s decision
is needed to make such a vital decision concerning human life.
One key appeal that the text appeals to is obviously pathos,
mostly because the text in concerned with an emotional topic such as a loved
ones life. A majority of the audience will not be able to know what it truly feels
like to be in that scenario, but through imagining it the author will reach their
purpose because of the emotions connected to allowing someone to die in their
loved one’s hands. I truly believe that this text was effective because of its
current examples of people on life support, and through the emotional appeal
people will soon ask the same questions as the author did in this text.
This text can be found at:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/opinion/rushton-munoz-case/index.html?hpt=op_mid
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