Persuasive Speech Outline On Suicide

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Topic: The Un-dead: Disfiguring Suicide Attempts

General Purpose: To help my family and others possible heal after suicide of a family member or attempted suicide.

Specific Purpose: To further understand how and why mentally of a person changes completely after a suicide attempt. As a result, the children are left without the loving parent they once had. Consequently, affecting their mentality for life as well.

Thesis: The unsuccessful ones are now among the un-dead, disfigured and lost within their own minds; like a mouse in a maze, never to be free from this turmoil again.

I: Statistics of Americans that die and or live from a firearm attempted suicide.
Fifteen percent of Americans that attempt suicide with a firearm are not successful.

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