We live in an era when technology appears to offer solutions for nearly everything. AI can write our emails, predict our shopping lists, even chat with us when we’re lonely. But when it comes to suicide prevention, the answer has always been human connection.

The real question is: what role should technology play?

At LivingWorks, headquartered in Calgary, we’ve spent four decades training people around the world — ordinary people, not just doctors or therapists — to step into one of the hardest moments anyone might face: helping someone who’s thinking about suicide. In all that time, one truth has never changed: it’s the human relationship that makes the difference.

The irony is that the more connected we seem online, the lonelier people may feel. Research indicates that higher levels o

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