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persuasuve speech outline PERSUASIVE SPEECH: Outline Student: Ekeze Enubuzor Instructor: Comm 110, Fundamentals of Public Speaking Date: Title: Specific Purpose:
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PERSUASIVE SPEECH: Outline
Student: Ekeze Enubuzor
Instructor:
Comm 110, Fundamentals of Public Speaking
Date:
Title:
Specific Purpose:
I. Introduction
A. Attention Getter
1. Story about Mr. Robert Henry
a. Mr. Robert Henry is a 45-year-old corporate executive who, while preparing to go to work, complains of a severe headache and collapses in front of his wife. As he is brought into the emergency room, he is seizing. He is quickly given intravenous meds to stop this. A computerized tomography scan reveals a devastating subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurgery is consulted, but in their opinion the patient will never regain consciousness and neither an angiogram nor an operating room will be of benefit. Mr. Henry has a living will stipulating that he is not to be kept alive on life support in the event of severe brain injury. After extensive discussions with the neurosurgeon, his wife and family agree to withdraw him from life support. At this time, Mr. Henry is not brain dead.
Ms. Henry is then approached by organ procurement organization or OPO. The wife consents to non-heart beating donation or NHBD after further discussions with the OPO. Mr. Henry is taken to the operating room with his family in attendance, and literally put to death. His family leaves and his organs are harvested.
B. Background
In this speech I will allow you to realize that non-heart beating donations are barbaric and should not be part of our American modern day medicine.
I will also allow you to hear the other side of this heated debate.
II. Body
A. Pros
NHBD, non-heart beating donation can result in a 25% increase in the number of organs available for transplant. This is a considerable increase at the present time, where the need for organs far surpasses availability and many people die while on the waiting lists.
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