This is ridiculous. The nurse obviously had other mental issues. No sane person would commit suicide over a prank. It wasn’t even that embarrassing a prank. Have we become so weak that a little bit of embarrassment makes us go off the deep end.
“The nurse obviously had other mental issues.”
Yet she was still working. Still a mother to her children. They pushed her over the edge with their stupid prank. What if a “prank” causes someone to have a heart attack. They are off the air now.
Wrong. She was a private person made to look silly to the entire world within a few hours. This isn’t like an office prank or a prank among buddies ... this could be an enromous burden to a shy, sensitive person.
Her job was over. Her life was over. She was about to be nothing more than a punchline to a joke all over the UK. You can bet there would have been more to it than that, if she were an immigrant she might be one of the few harrassed and expelled for embarrassing the royal family.
We are seeing it as citizens in a constitutional republic. She a subject in a monarchy. She probably felt great shame to be a party to the pranking of a royal highness. Here, we were raised with all men are created equal; there, she was likely raised to adore the royalty.
As a different example, look at how the people of Thailand are devoted to their beloved king. If this prank had happened there, I could see the same thing happening.
-PJ
respectfully you are 100% wrong.
look up the principle of “eggshell skull” in the law.
it DOES NOT MATTER that she had mental issues. that is the law.
THEY CAUSED THE TRIGGER. They are liable.
There is 100% foreseeability in a negative consequence. Somebody would be fired, somebody will have a black mark on their career. The fact she was ill is of no matter.
(think having someone fake arrested and the victim having a heart attack.)
You take your victim, and the ensuring consequences, as you find them.
They killed her. period.
This is like yelling fire in a croweded theater as a joke.
Thank you, beandog. For a woman to kill herself over a silly phoney phone call is beyond the pale. She must have had serious issues prior - or her family beat her up so badly over her mistake that she decided to punish them.
The disc jockeys pulled a silly prank. I laughed at their bad imitations of the Queen and Prince Charles. Charles was making jokes about it before this suicide.
Did the hospital make her life a misery afterwards? Foolish, foolish girl!
It was her decision to kill herself, and wrong, but it was something that never should have been done to her. You can’t say that it wasn’t embarrassing, even humiliating, and showed her to fail in her job before the whole world. The British news is saying she felt lonely and confused after the prank and that her family in India wasn’t told about her part in it. And then the royal family is practically worshiped in the UK, and the whole world follows their every move, and these VIPs were in her hospital and under her care. Whatever the hospital and the royals say, there couldn’t have been any private good humor over what happened with it being a security breach.
I remember being in ninth grade and a couple of my friends played a joke on me and told me they’d flown across the country to go to the funeral of Jon-Erik Hexum, the actor who died young in a set accident. They only told a couple of other people that I fell for their story, but I felt humiliated the few times they kidded me about it. Being duped is a humiliation, and when it concerns your job, protecting people’s privacy, and a royal family while the world is watching, there is no guarantee that someone isn’t going to be traumatized by that.