The Hospital Nurse Who Got Duped In The Duchess Kate Prank Call Committed Suicide

Submitted by Lucifer_Sam on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 7:56pm.
It goes without saying that the nurse had pre-existing issues. But the fact that some people think no harm was done just goes to show the depths of depravity and insensitivity this world has sunk to, when the only "funny" anyone can laugh at is the public humiliation of someone who did nothing to hurt anybody, had probably done consecutive 12-hour shifts in a high stress job, and whose children just yesterday had a mother.

Let's hope it's not your family next time.
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Yes, no doubt being the butt of a joke in front of her co-workers AND the world must have been the tipping point for her. It would have been considerate if her name had not been released to the public. She wasn't off being a famewhore. Why is there
absolutely no privacy anymore??

Submitted by Hairy Back Mary on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 12:40am.

(((HBM)))

I wish I knew what to say, but I guess I just want to express that there are people here who understand. I hope you feel better soon, HBM.

Just read the Daily Mail article and man it brought tears to my eyes. Apparently she was highly regarded and much loved by her coworkers. There's a pic of them looking quite distressed while walking into the hospital. They said she was not reprimanded for her mistake.
Clearly she had some serious issues to even consider something like this but this whole public humiliation for the sake of entertainment shtick is ridiculous, not that it will ever end, but you don't know how people will react to it or how deeply someone will be affected.
I work in a hospital, and while I'm not a nurse, I can say it's an amazingly stressful job when you have to deal with very ill patients who are in pain and some of whom cannot be healed and you have to watch them die. There's no way you cannot internalize some of that. Pulling a prank on healthcare workers who are already in critical situations, not to mention all the HIPAA regulations you're constantly bombarded with and reminded of seems like such an assholish thing to do. But I know the two DJs could never have imagined that they could cause profound harm. It's too bad this lady's death is proof that it can. Just sad all around.

Just hearing about this story now, worked late. It literally makes me cry.
I've been doing damaging things to myself lately because I just suck, having serious depression/anxiety issues, so to even try and understand how this woman must have felt, totally breaks my heart. I think my shit is bad, but hers was everywhere. Seriously awful. I won't say anything about the radio people either way, what I think about them won't change their outcome anyway.

Just can help wondering if Kate thinks all this is worth it just to show the mean girls at school that she doesn't have to have a job. What is Wills giving up? Nothing. But Kate has to deal with the nausea, the wax work sister cloning her and said sister not having to put up with any of the constant ettiquette or any ettiquette as we've seen none so far just partying and travels etc. Poor old Kate. Waited this long and for what.

((thanks Tater))

You made me lol with that "anyone who looks like them."

Submitted by ilovetatertots on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 6:04pm.

Werd.

Your office bitch....what a cunt. I worked with a bitch like that a few years ago who got me "laid off" because she was jealous of me and didn't like me. She did it to EVERY woman who worked at this particular place (mostly men worked there). She hated me because I actually got along with all the men there. Joke's on her because I am still friends with all the guys, while they all still hate her fucking bitch guts. I pray daily for her to die of some wasting painful cancer that lingers for years.

I hate bitches like this, and the one in your office, because they are nothing more than bullies-- and isn't that what we're all up in arms about in our SCHOOLS??? Goes to show that teenagers aren't the only ones who can't deal with assholes who have nothing better to do than fuck with people's lives. #bullieswillgetwhatscomingtothem

It goes without saying that the nurse had pre-existing issues. But the fact that some people think no harm was done just goes to show the depths of depravity and insensitivity this world has sunk to, when the only "funny" anyone can laugh at is the public humiliation of someone who did nothing to hurt anybody, had probably done consecutive 12-hour shifts in a high stress job, and whose children just yesterday had a mother.

Let's hope it's not your family next time.

@Cashew Time ... hugs!!! Office bullies and hell just bullies in general are some of the worst people alive. That had to be a very hard decision to come to, but I hope you are happier away from those assholes. And fuck them and everyone who looks like em!

Wendy,

I'm late to the party, but also wanted to say your description was perfect :).

Red Peggy,

Please get back on your med if you need to. I speak as someone who has dealt with this since childhood. It is NOT our fault, as we're told by New Age assholes over and over again and also by friends and family, who, psychiatric experts they are, are just omg overjoyed that we "quit!" I've fallen for that crap before,felt empowered for a couple of weeks. But in the end, I'm born with a chemical imbalance the same way someone could be born with a certain walk or voice. It's as simple as that. I'm not some weak person, and neither is anyone else in need of extra chemicals their brains just don't have. That's how I look at it. Good luck to you and if you wanna bitch on this site e during winter I'll join you :p.

Tater,
How awful for that woman. I'm glad you've stayed friends with her, and I hope you're able to give her a karmic report on that office bitch. I left a job bc of bullying also. It definitely sticks with you, what other ppl believed and how you couldn't shake it off or kill them with kindness or understanding. I hope your friend realizes that closure doesn't have to be two-sided. But I will admit that a year later I'm still working toward that. I'm glad she had at least one smart person who stuck by her. Office bitch will definitely get hers one day when she picks on the wrong person. Happens to them all. Now that my mother is in her 60s, I've been watching ppl who had bullied her face it over and over again, so I have hope, but timing on the other hand is a bitch.

God, this story is so sad. Today, I was in the store and this lady started talking to me. She kept saying how she didn't want to be out; she just couldn't handle it. Then she burst into tears. Turns out, her only child died about 3years ago, and it's really hard on her during the holidays. She said the holidays were huge for them. I just gave her a hug.

This time of year is so hard on people.

What a mess, a big sad mess.

Submitted by ilovetatertots on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 5:47pm.

YES, it is! :)

So terrible this woman took her life over this. If it was her coworkers that drove her to it, those assholes really need to be reprimanded, otherwise they will just keep messing with other unfortunate souls.

I work with a smug asshole who screws with other coworkers just cuz she's bored. There was a receptionist who worked here for years and years who took politics kinda serious. She is a die hard Republican that can't stand anything to do with Pres Obama. So leading up to the election, this asshole, who doesn't even fucking vote mind you, would praise President Obama in front of her just to see her lose her shit and laugh about it to other co-workers later. I called her out on it once, and asshole's reply was "She shouldn't be taking it so serious, it's not my fault" and would continue to laugh at her, which then turned into asshole talking about how the Receptionist dressed, looked, etc. The day before the election, asshole taunted the receptionist and got other pro Obama people to say they were voting for him in front of her. Long story short, the Receptionist is now a former employee. She quit the day after the election and threatened to kill herself. She mentioned "I hope those women are happy now when I'm gone" I've been keeping up with her since then, and thankfully, she hasn't committed suicide...but mentally she's not in a good place. I'm sure asshole isn't entirely responsible for the mental breakdown, but that p.o.s. played a big role in it. And to this day, she keeps the two faced shenanigans up. Ugh, life is really is a motherfucker sometimes. :(

Submitted by Phatasmagoria on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 4:30pm.

Sorta off topic...

Is that Anne Boleyn in your avi?? I love her because she is my hero, Queen Elizabeth I's momma!!!!

Submitted by babybunny on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 4:57pm.
btw bipolar and depression run rampant at this time of year, and yes I have both....but yet and still have not killed myself over this fucking world and the shitty people in it, especially in my family...except for sites like this, yes it is true, I feel that when I see dlisted 90000 times a day especially at my lowest point my psychiatrist/therapist Michael K makes me laugh my ass off....no meds for me, dlisted horz rule!!

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Word, sister. MK and the Dlisted sluts have helped me at my lowest points too. And yeah there is something to be said of the shorter days and colder weather making everyone miserable...stock up on vitamin D and walk in the sunshine for a little bit per day. It really does a world of good.

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Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 10:33pm.

"This bitch is crazier than a pillowcase full of clear-level scientologist possums."

This is just awfully sad for all involved. If you could change one thing about this situation it might not have ended this way. Sure the radio prank call wasn't the best idea, but I doubt anyone sees this sort of reaction coming. Just ONE person there to help her deal with embarrassment or shame she felt before she made that decision.

I was reading something else the other day and I ended up at the suicide.org. It's worth it to read the short page of how to access and handle a person who is suicidal.....main thing is to LISTEN!
www.suicide.org/how-to-help-a-suicidal-person.html

WendyNerd, you're so right...how easy it is to dismiss when someone is mentally unstable, I have done it :(

Poor soul, poor family, poor kids :(

<"Submitted by stinky on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 3:37pm.
Wow. Big coincidence. Two women who embarrassed the palace in unexplained deaths. Diana and Jacintha.">
Diana was unexplained? Her driver ran 100mph into a concrete barrier under an overpass in Paris. Autopsy said her vena cava was torn from her heart. How do you get more explained a death than that.

Submitted by salacious on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 4:47pm.
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She was probably mortified that the world heard the recording of her falling for the prank. There was no security breach (as it was a joke) but it could have been. Terribly sad for her family.

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btw bipolar and depression run rampant at this time of year, and yes I have both....but yet and still have not killed myself over this fucking world and the shitty people in it, especially in my family...except for sites like this, yes it is true, I feel that when I see dlisted 90000 times a day especially at my lowest point my psychiatrist/therapist Michael K makes me laugh my ass off....no meds for me, dlisted horz rule!!

No, I have been there, and it is unreal how cruel out world is...I have gotten fired from job for helping out other people who were stressed and too busy to do their work....if one thing went wrong I WAS BLAMED AND EVENTUALLY FIRED...no damn good deed goes unpunished...that is why I now know when it comes to work you have to just do your part, and even though it goes against your nature, don't help out others...all I have ever done when I helped co-workers out was get blamed and get fired. Life truly sucks like that. You think the opposite would be true, but unfortunately they probably gave this nurse a ration of shit, and she couldn't bare to face her co-workers, but killing yourself is letting the assholes win, life is gotta be more precious than that...people can be awful, but your life if your life....I remember wanting to kill myself many times over job related things, cause sometimes your income is all you have, but then as usual you are killing the wrong person and letting the assholes win. fuck I feel so bad for this girl...those dj's need to be banned from radio forever.

Someone lost her life for accidentally causing minor distress to the future queen? Fuck, I like monarchy less now. I'm inclined to think she was going through depression, but it certainly didn't help whatever shit their superiors put her through, and led her to believe that she was worthless in something she was very good at. What a waste, she didn't deserve this. :(

A decent productive woman feels the need to kill herself over a joke about a fucking useless parasitical bitch. Terrible.

"No matter how cynical you become, it's impossible to keep up." - Lily Tomlin

Depression is depressing :(

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Submitted by stinkbutt on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 5:47pm.
suckandfuck, do us all a favor, and hang yourself. Oh, and your parents should be shot for raising a disgusting pig like yourself.

Depression is a muthafuckah and I should know, I've had it for over thirty years. I knew something was wrong when I was sixteen-- we opened our christmas presents, everything was jolly and fun at our house, and I just walked upstairs, sat down on my bed, and burst into tears.
No reason, no disappointment over gifts, no family fights...nothing. Just BOOM.
Took me years to realize I had a problem, until one day I found myself curled up under a blanket on a chair and my husband said I hadn't moved from the chair for three days except to go to the bathroom and eat (very little).
My point is, there are varying degrees of depression and various ways to deal with it. This poor woman, who knows what she was going thru in her mental state and in her life...this was her tipping point. And we all have one. You just don't know what it is until you hit it.

Submitted by suckandfuck on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 1:17pm.

**** NO JOKES ALLOWED ****

^ Especially without a comprehensive mental health evaluation - and possibly a signed waiver - ahead of time.

Submitted by WendyNerd on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 2:06pm.
It wasn't just the prank call. It might have been the last straw or tipping point that sent her over the edge, but no one commits suicide over a prank call. Especially not someone with two children. Something tells me there had been a lot brewing in that poor woman's life for a while.

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Exactly what I was thinking.

one of my favorite authors, David Foster Wallace, offed himself when he tried changing meds, or stopped taking them and the new one's weren't helping. Shame.

No one has to know if you're taking meds to help yourself and they don't approve cuz you look well on the outside.

edited: Wallace committed suicide by hanging himself on September 12, 2008.In an interview with The New York Times, Wallace's father reported that Wallace had suffered from depression for more than 20 years and that antidepressant medication had allowed him to be productive. When he experienced severe side effects from the medication, Wallace attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant, phenelzine. On his doctor's advice, Wallace stopped taking the medication in June 2007, and the depression returned. Wallace received other treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy. When he returned to phenelzine, he found it had lost its effectiveness. In the months before his death, his depression became severe.

- his bio on wikipedia.

Submitted by RedPeggy on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 4:00pm.
I got hugged!
That was lovely and genuinely made me feel better Wendy. Thank you. I'm hugging back! xxxxx

Funnily enough I myself have just stopped taking my Prozac. As expected those who know I take it (there's not many of them) all looked secretly pleased and nodded wisely when I told them.

But I'm not even sure why I stopped. I guess I just wanted my loved ones to think I was feeling better, to think I was making progress finally.

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Please take it again. If you don't want them to know, don't tell them. It's none of their business then. But do what's right for yourself. If your meds make you feel weird, please just talk to your doctor and maybe have them altered (I have done this before. For a long time I took Adderall, but after a few years, all of a sudden, it started making me go manic and keeping me up all night. I'm on Vyvanse now and much better), but don't just stop. It's really, really so dangerous. You might feel okay for while, but then it will come back full force. It'll hit you like a ton of bricks all of a sudden.

Butterfly in the sky
I can go twice as high
Take a look
It's in a book
Pig-fucking movie
Pig-fucking movie

Thanks, Wendy Nerd, for your thoughts. *hug*

No! What nurse... Who saves lives.. Has 2 kids.. Married.. Job... Bills.. Has 2 kids... Married... Job... Bills... Is going to suddenly kill on self over Kates Ho ass? Im really hating this couple more than ever now. And, everyone here in N. Ireland has always thought Wills was gaaaay!

Submitted by RedPeggy on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 4:00pm.
I got hugged!
That was lovely and genuinely made me feel better Wendy. Thank you. I'm hugging back! xxxxx

Funnily enough I myself have just stopped taking my Prozac. As expected those who know I take it (there's not many of them) all looked secretly pleased and nodded wisely when I told them.

But I'm not even sure why I stopped. I guess I just wanted my loved ones to think I was feeling better, to think I was making progress finally.
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if you need them, take them. who are they to judge what goes on inside of you. You don't have to live your life to please their misguided beliefs.

I got hugged!
That was lovely and genuinely made me feel better Wendy. Thank you. I'm hugging back! xxxxx

Funnily enough I myself have just stopped taking my Prozac. As expected those who know I take it (there's not many of them) all looked secretly pleased and nodded wisely when I told them.

But I'm not even sure why I stopped. I guess I just wanted my loved ones to think I was feeling better, to think I was making progress finally.

but maybe some find a reason, cuz there is a reason to kill others or commit suicide. There are no reasons. especially for a mother of two. what reason do you need to die? help is there if you need it, people who understand, and you're never alone, especially concerning depression. where I'm from many commit suicide for financial reasons they can't get out of.

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Submitted by TrashyWilma :
We live in a broken society where we think we can fuck with people, who have feelings and emotions, with no repercussions. This is why it's deemed ok to humiliate others on sites like People of Wal-Mart and Reddit.

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People of Walmart are practically asking to be mocked by society if they walk out of the house knowing full well they're....

showing their frilly pink panties (male)
http://media.peopleofwalmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/3438MICH.jpg

or riding a Rascal dressed head to toe as the toothless Tooth Fairy:
http://media.peopleofwalmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/671.jpg

or showing an uncovered double D-cup BACK BOOBS or fupa:

http://media.peopleofwalmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Finals.jpg

or a freaking Centaur!
http://media.peopleofwalmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/4423.jpg

This is just still so awful. Despite whatever underlying conditions may have existed, kids lost their Mommy and a man lost his wife.

eta: Hugs and cyber love to WendyNerd.

Submitted by WendyNerd on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 3:39pm.
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I had read it only after I saw the comment mentioning you. I agree, although cut what you wrote short. It's very unfortunate.

Submitted by RedPeggy on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 3:29pm.
Wendynerd - that was beautiful and I agree with every word.

I kind of want to hug you now, and (even more) have you hug me.

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*HUGS*

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Thanks, everyone who read it. This sort of thing hits home with me because I grew up in a depression household (both parents, myself, great-grandmother who killed herself) and when you deal with that shit, you get so many people who are all "Oh, you feel sad? Get over it. There are starving children, emo kid." And there's all this guilt, not just from depression, but also from being medicated at all. People act like you're a drama Queen and you feel so weak having to take pills just to be able to function. It happens to people constantly all over the world. And you have people holding this stuff in, not getting treated because they don't want to be weak. And so whenever I hear stories of suicide, it makes me go nuts because it's almost always a case of mental illness gone un-diagnosed, or untreated, or the person is guilted into not taking their meds. And it hurts emotionally, mentally, and physically. I was lucky enough to have parents who understood what was going on and to be able to pay for treatment. and a good therapist. For a chronic depressive/obsessive-compulsive/borderline bipolar, I have it easy. My parents taught me not to feel guilty and to take my meds and not hate myself for it. So when I think of someone going through that without what I have--- It drives me nuts.

Also, it makes me a bit long-winded. Sorry for the rants.

Butterfly in the sky
I can go twice as high
Take a look
It's in a book
Pig-fucking movie
Pig-fucking movie

Wow. Big coincidence. Two women who embarrassed the palace in unexplained deaths. Diana and Jacintha.

Shut up you ugly poo-faced git!

Submitted by louise_brooks on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 1:32pm.

Submitted by sinjin on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 1:23pm.

OMG That is awful.
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I agree. I was horrified when I was told. That park is a little one block sized neighborhood park and all the trees are on the opposite side of where I drive by each day. I would NOT want to be the person who discovered her (likely an early morning dog walker or people who live across the street from that park. Tragic and unnecessary.

In a related note, a nearby town school recently won in a lawsuit filed against them because they took no action to curb bullying. So if the school doesn't have to do anything,and the bully's parents aren't responsible whe the hell is? *smh*

And those DJs should lose their jobs, too. And Kate must feel pretty awful - not that it's her fault at all.

Wendynerd - that was beautiful and I agree with every word.

I kind of want to hug you now, and (even more) have you hug me.

Whoa!

How do we know she killed herself? It doesn't say how she died. Maybe someone killed her.

I mean, she she didn't do anything wrong. SHE wasn't the one who released confidential information. She just patched the call through. If anyone should feel bad it would be the nurse who blabbed. But it's not like anyone died or was hurt or even lost a job because she pressed Xfer!!

Maybe she did have depression or something. But I want to know how she died. I think it's hinky that a mother of two would have done that over nothing much.

We live in a broken society where we think we can fuck with people, who have feelings and emotions, with no repercussions. This is why it's deemed ok to humiliate others on sites like People of Wal-Mart and Reddit. DListed is really not exempt from this because it sometimes targets ordinary people who accidentally got a moment of spotlight. You'd think people would get better over time, but we're cold, mean and distant.

This is really sad.

I've always thought practical jokes were stupid, and this just cements my view. This woman -- whatever her other troubles were-- is now gone and her family will only suffer. I kinda hope those djs lose their jobs and her family gets some kind of peace out of it. yes, it was a joke, but clearly not to this woman. When it goes to this extent, you kind of have to sit back and say to yourself, "Was it worth it, just for a laugh?" Answer: clearly NO.

This is so incredibly sad...

RIP Nurse Jacintha

ETA: I feel like shit if I fuck up at work, and hope my mistake isn't broadcast to my fellow employees. I don't care how depressed you are or not...this was broadcast worldwide. I it think it was a major reason to send her or anyone over the edge.

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obviously, she had to have great issues before that. maybe it was the straw that broke the camels back, but it's not the reason. There is no reason, in my opinion.