A Tapestry of Voices is a production of Impacted Family & Friends (IFF) and avoiceatthetable.org
This 8-part murder-suicide series is a collaboration between the Impacted Family & Friends Division of
the American Association of Suicidology (AASIFFDIV) and AVoiceattheTable.org
A Tapestry of Voices
Voices Still Unheard, Stories Still Untold...a series
The Complexity of Murder Suicide: the psychology, the trauma, the survivors, the methodology & safety. This is an 8-part series throughout May & June : 3 two-hour webinars - $30.00 each, 4 one-hour livestreams (no cost) &
one 90-minute roundtable With Kevin Hines (no cost).
PLEASE NOTE: A percentage of proceeds after expenses will be donated to underwrite the development of additional Impacted Family & Friends projects and also to the American Association of Suicidology.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase your ticket for each webinar, you will have access to download an informal, Informational Toolkit that will walk you through the 8-part series. You can also find some of that information on the Tapestry of Voices page on this website.
The links for the webinars will be sent the day before each session to the email address you enter during checkout. NOTE: Based on feedback we've received & sensitive to the potential time zone and work schedule conflicts, if the live schedule time creates a participation conflict, you can prepay and reserve a webinar that will be available to you within 4 dyas of its live session. Each prepaid webinar will be available until August 30, via a private link. Links will be deleted at the end of that viewing option. We hope this addresses and accommodates viewing conflicts.
The four livestream sessions will be posted separately in July 2021
Information: director@avoiceatthetable.org
Recorded on May 6, 2021 There are at least 750 murder-suicides in the U.S. every year, claiming the lives of at least 1500 people annually. In the book The Perversion of Virtue (2014, Oxford), Thomas Joiner argues that all of these deaths begin with the decision to die by suicide, then grow through a perversion of virtue into the belief that one's own death requires the death of at least one other person. The virtues perverted in murder-suicide are always mercy, justice, glory, or duty, Joiner claims. Join Dr. Joiner’s presentation May 6th, via a 2-hour live webinar. |
Recorded on May 21st, 2021 On May 8th, 2014, Stephanie came home and discovered that her husband Jesse had killed their four-year-old, Maribella, then himself. As part of the never-ending recovery from this tragedy, Stephanie has dedicated her life's work to be an advocate for improvements in the care of people with brain illnesses, as well as help those who have faced similar tragedies. Murder-suicide events are rare yet are happening at an increasing rate. The ripples reverberate through families, friends, and communities. No one can be prepared for such an event. These events are often highly publicized, however, once that fades, the people left behind have to re-build their lives. The bereaved face a litany of challenges and often lack resources to support their healing process. Stephanie will share her personal experience of how murder suicide has affected her, her surviving child, and her observations on how it has affected those around them directly and years later. Objectives:
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Recorded on June 4, 2021 In this presentation, Dr. Anestis will clarify how and why firearms play a central role in firearm suicide. Nearly two-thirds of all firearm deaths in the United States are suicide deaths and more than half of all suicide deaths are by firearms. This is true even though firearms are used in less than 5% of all suicide attempts. When someone in the US attempts suicide, they almost never use a firearm and yet, when someone in the US dies by suicide, more often than not a firearm caused that death. Fortunately, we are learning more about how firearms increase the risk for suicide and what we can do to decrease that risk. Dr. Anestis will detail this information in an effort to provide a roadmap for how the US can meaningfully and sustainably reduce the national suicide rate through a direct and data driven focus on firearms. |