What is a great controversial topic for an informative speech?
It’s not necessarily brand new, but I have done presentations on Physician Assisted Suicide often. That’s basically the idea that physicians should be allowed to help a patient die if the patient chooses to do so. It’s a very controversial topic, you can write your speech from either side of the argument and there are lots of articles and books out there to use as sources. Often, people automatically say “That’s murder; it’s wrong” but then you can provide some good examples that sometimes get people thinking. Such as a pediatric patient that is in the end stages of terminal cancer, is definitely going to die, and is in extreme pain that medication can’t help. Regardless of what side of the issue you are on, you can generate some good discussions from it.
