Tomorrow evening I’ll be doing an online, 3-hour workshop titled, “Blending Traditional and Strengths-Based Approaches to Suicide Assessment.”
You can still sign up (until noon Mountain time tomorrow) here: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/socialworktrainingseries/event/suicideassesment/
And, if you’re taking the workshop, or you’re just curious and want to see the ppts, click here:
John Sommers-Flanagan 
Will this be recorded? I won’t be able to attend live but am interested in learning this still.
Hi Adrianna,
Yes, I will try to get it recorded. I’m not sure if we can get you CEUs for watching the recording, but I can check. Thanks for your interest. JSF
Awesome thank you! I don’t mind not getting CEUs, the topic is very relevant and interesting so it would be a great use of time to watch. Should I sign up for the training even though I’m not able to watch it live or keep an eye out for the recording if you are able to?
Hi Adrianna,
If you sign up, you’ll need to pay the $79. You can also email me at john.sf@mso.umt.edu if you miss the deadline for signing up (which is in 44 min!).
Thanks,
JSF
Please UNSUBSCRIBE ME, I’ve attempted but not successful.
Many thanks 🙏
Hi Mary, I think I managed to unsubscribe you. I’ve never done it before, so let me know if I’ve failed and you keep getting my posts. Sorry. JSF
Hey John,
I am bummed that I have to miss this. I have been requested to observe a domestic violence group this evening from 6-8 that I can’t get out of.
I hope the class goes well.
Dylan
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Sounds like fun:)
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the spirit of the deceased school headmaster Albus Dumbledore says to Harry, “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and, above all, those who live without love.”
It’s a tragic fact that many chronically and pharmaceutically-untreatably depressed people won’t miss this world if they, for whatever reason, never wake up again. It’s not that they necessarily want to die per se; it’s that they want their pointless corporeal suffering to end.
Also, I read [and any reader should correct me if I’m in error] Sigmund Freud postulated that, regardless of one’s mental health and relative happiness or existential contentment, the ultimate goal of our brain/mind is death’s bliss because of the general stressful nature of our physical existence, i.e. anxiety or “stimuli”. It’s important to clarify, however, that it’s not brain death per se that is the aim but rather the kind of absolute peace that only brain death can offer in this hectic world.
Indeed, the Sigmund Freud character in the 2011 film A Dangerous Method, muttered upon having a near-death-experience heart attack, “How sweet it must be to die.”
Quite unfortunately, some people genuinely feel the greatest gift life offers them is that someday they get to die. Perhaps worsening matters is when suicide is simply not an option, meaning there’s little hope of receiving an early reprieve from their literal life sentence. And, of course, reincarnation is therefore the ultimate and unthinkable Hell.