I.
             A. After going to a party and being date-raped, 18 year-old Wendy Sunderland became depressed. She told no one of her trauma that she was so ashamed of. While at home on one of her breaks from college, Wendy unloaded her story to a close friend. She OD'd on anxiety pills, took a kitchen knife to the bathroom and proceeded to cut her wrists. Her stepfather walked in the bathroom, found Wendy, and called for an ambulance. Her suicide attempt failed. At the hospital she told her family of her rape, and was later released after the doctors pronounced her "overwhelmed". She went back to school and seemed to be doing well, actively participating in school activities and sorority sponsorships, even started dating a guy from her school. It was a surprise when her mom came home from work one day, and saw her daughter's car in the garage, after Wendy said she wouldn't be able to come home that weekend. An even bigger shock was when she went into Wendy's room and found her laying one her bed, dead. She had shot herself.
            
             B. Suicide is not a negative choice but rather a positive one, both in theory and personally.
            
             C. Hopefully that will be more understandable by the end of the speech after I discuss the problems which are reasoning and the criticism suicide receives, the controversial solution that is suicide, as well as the impact the solution will have if it is used and accepted, and why it would be more damaging if this continues to be unaccepted and considered a punishable crime.
            
            
             II.
             A. It is important to understand that suicide is not the problem, but rather its the solution. The problem is with reasons that one should decide to commit suicide as well as the reasons people feel suicide is wrong.
             B. After hearing the story of Wendy Sunderland, we may ask ourselves why she didn't receive any kind of treatment for the trauma that haunted her. It is possible that her reasons ...