Suicide persuasive presentation

Hi:

I remember when I was doing a talk on internet stranger danger and stalking a few years ago, I used an introduction where I talked about a real life situation where a woman was stalked by a guy she met on a chat site - I detailed exactly what had happened (he controled her computer using a remote control, managed to find out where she lived etc) and then after giving this 1 minute intro, I said - the issue of stalking has been big, but now it is in cyberspace.

So I guess what I am trying to say is - use a really interesting real life story about suicide and its tragedy - you want them to think this is going to be interesting and what happens to other humans - we thrive on such issues.

Good luck. What's it for? assignment or seminar pres?

it is for a speech..infront of an audience.
it has to be persuasive..to persuade the audience that suicide IS preventable

Well from my experiences and some articles I read, I suppose the most powerful argument against suicide and it can in this case help prevent suicides; is to make sure that the person who want to commit suicide would think abuot his own consequences on the family, friends or passer-by.

Anyone who stops for a second to think how the family/friends/passerby would feel, are always in every case does not commiting suicide.

Because to commit suicide, you have to have the feeling that you don't care about the world, don't care about other people, including your family etc, and that they won't care about you.
It is very hard to commit a suicide in front of someone, an innocent passerby.

That said, I meant suicide in situations like depression, unhappy with life, distraughted about some tragic events so on. The main cause.

i did a speech about suicide this year and i really got through to the crowd. Start off with some information, something that will really make a person realize that its serious, maybe an estimation of how many people kill themselves each day, and compare that number to other things, i don't quite remember how it went but after i gave an estimation i said" thats a fully loaded jet crash, crashing each day. good luck with your presentation!

my mother-in-law sat with one of her sons and a grandson who were dying of cancer while still teenagers. She says that anyone who does not respect life should have sat with her and they would understand.

Its a contraversial issue isn't?