Posted on 12/09/2012 6:55:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
LONDON — It’s the million-dollar question, and not only here in the U.K. Jacintha Saldana — one of the nurses taken in by the prank phone call to the hospital where Catherine, duchess of Cambridge, was being treated for acute morning sickness — killed herself early Friday. And we are all left scratching our heads. Why did she do it?
Of course, the first thing we all wonder is about her mental stability. We’d all desperately like to believe that this hard-working mother of two, who commuted 140 miles to her day job, often working double shifts so that she could spend more time with her family — must have some deep, dark secret to hide. Because then the rest of us could at least explain away an event that is, as the chairman of King Edward VII Hospital put it, “tragic beyond words.”
But from what we know, there is no sign that Saldana was suicidal, unstable or psychologically frail before she took her own life this week. Shy and nervous? Yes. But so depressed she was suicidal? Doesn’t sound right, at least according to those who knew Saldana, who was described at work as “an excellent nurse, well-respected and popular with all of her colleagues.”
Maybe she faced some kind of severe sanction from the hospital where she worked? Maybe the hospital blamed her for falling for a hoax in which two Australian DJs masquerading as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles managed to fool the diligent but non-native English speaker, who subsequently passed the phone call on to the Duchess’s private nurse, who then revealed details about the duchess’s condition?
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The radio DJ’s are said to be vulnerable and fragile right now.
lolz
Apprently she was fragile too. Now they want to claim they are fragile. lol
I, too, have experienced this; twice. Both times the person I was talking to was experiencing life-changing problems for which they could imagine no solution.
In neither case was I able to predict the outcome. I can only hope that now I am more attuned to what such people may be facing and that I can find some way to intervene; probably just by buying some time.
The only cure for hopelessness is hope.
Whoa, who said she was not a native English speaker. She was a Mangalorean Catholic and English would be as native to her as Konkani and Kannada/Tulu.
the Wash post made an error — she would have been a native English speaker.
I think the Hospital over-reacted because of political presssure, they probably made the nurse feel like her career was over. Political pressure can be very intense when you are dealing with a bunch of buracrats. The nurse cracked under the pressure. She must have been emotionally weak to begin with, cause you have to be strong to stand up under that kind of pressure. It’s not the fault of the pranksters. Perhaps some political pressures as well from outside the hospital played a role as well. I am sure all hell was breaking loose, just we will never hear about it.
I think the Prince over reacted and is acting like a spoiled brat if what you say is true. If the Prince acted this poorly, then he has brought shame on himself. There is no excuse for acting like a complete jerk. I feel awful saying this, but I can’t help it!
What I said is that the Prince did NOT complain. Read carefully before accusing.
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