Why did the nurse at Kate Middleton’s hospital kill herself?
With her gracious manner, middle-class origins and girl-next-door beauty, Catherine has captured the British public’s imagination in a way that even her elegant, much-loved, would-have-been mother-in-law, the late Princess Diana, didn’t quite manage. And that’s because, unlike Lady Di, Kate Middleton is one of us.
So when the fairy tale princess goes into the hospital with acute morning sickness, we’re all on the edge of our seats, because there’s so very much riding on her being okay, not to mention the third-in-line-to-the-throne inside her womb.
Which is a heckuva lot to carry on your shoulders if you’re an immigrant nurse who happens to make the wrong decision on a phone call when you’re tired and trying too hard and haven’t quite mastered the language of the country you live in.
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Certainly the poor woman had more going on than embarrassment by a couple of Australian “shock jocks” tricking her into giving Royal Pregnancy dish. May her husband and children find peace.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Culture.
OldEnglish on December 9, 2012 at 8:40 AM
So incredibly sad. As trite as the saying is, it is almost always correct, this was a permanent solution to a very very temporary “problem”.
Cindy Munford on December 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Exactly. Shame vs. Guilt. Middle East and Asia are largely shame-based cultures.
IrishEi on December 9, 2012 at 8:49 AM
But you’re still allowed to work as a nurse, despite the risks of miscommunication and malpractice. Because of universal health care, Britian imports cheap medical personnel from Asia and East Europe. The EU employment rules don’t permit them to give English language tests.
The Daily Mail had an article a few weeks ago about a radiologist from India who worked for several months at a British hospital and then someone realized he didn’t understand English.
Get sick on a weekend and the ER doctor mnight be a Czech who just flies in for the weekend to cover the ER, and doesn’t even know the hospital.
Wethal on December 9, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Very sad that the nurse felt she had no option but suicide but I think the calls for the radio jocks to be fired/punished are excessive.
katiejane on December 9, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Di had “captured the British public’s imagination,” & as a non-royal school teacher, she was “one of us” before she wed Charles.
Where do they dig up these writers?
itsnotaboutme on December 9, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Better for her kids future, too.
OldEnglish on December 9, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Diana was born an aristocrat, daughter of the 8th Earl of Spencer, and one of Prince Charles’s innumerable Royal Cousins.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM
I completely agree with you.
PC and obsessiveness over emotions is downgrading Western civilization.
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 9:22 AM
isare downgradingAnti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 9:26 AM
What a bunch of crap! Now wapo is picking her bones, too? The inquest is next week. Until then it’s all speculation.
Blake on December 9, 2012 at 9:26 AM
This is sick. Conservatives will demand that Michelle Obama be crucified for suggesting that maybe itd be nice if kids ate healthy food at school. These idiots lead to the suicide of a young woman and your response is “PEOPLE ARE SO SENSITIVE!!” You should be ashamed of yourself.
libfreeordie on December 9, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Legally speaking, yes.
OldEnglish on December 9, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Not the same thing – but don’t let that get in the way of your inaccurate rant.
OldEnglish on December 9, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Maybe that made sense somewhere in your brain? Synapse misfire, perhaps?
Wanderlust on December 9, 2012 at 9:44 AM
I’m withholding judgement on this tragedy until I hear from Costas tonight. I need clarity…….
Tim Zank on December 9, 2012 at 9:59 AM
What another fallacious argument? You don’t say.
CW on December 9, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Hysterical much? You are the sick one, and you are a melodramatic nut.
No one besides the nurse herself is responsible for her choice to commit suicide, pathetically and self-centeredly abandoning her life and family over such a mild prank.
You’re a manipulative, developmentally immature socialist pig who believes we are all each others’ keepers, which is antithetical to the concept of freedom – not like a control freak like you is capable of understanding this!
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Well the DJs are definitely guilty of a55h0lery. .
What kind of idiot thinks it’s ok to prank a hospital where the employees are busy taking care of sick people? Haha. Hilarious. . Its not as if the employees have better things to do in a hospital. And why did they think it’s ok to fraudulently steal information about a sick woman?
I hope they feel really bad about themselves. To heck with them.
juliesa on December 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM
I am unsure about what ultimately drove this poor woman to kill herself, but I do know this…this extreme worship of famous people is a sickness. This kind of idolatry is what led to Princess Diana’s death. If millions of people weren’t waiting with baited breath to hear about Kate’s condition, perhaps these DJs wouldn’t have thought it would be so funny to dupe a busy hospital for yucks.
ellifint on December 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM
My question is, we’re the jock fired because of the suicide, or because they picked on Kate?
RINOs are people too on December 9, 2012 at 10:46 AM
There is definitely something wrong there and weirdly many libs join right in. At least with movie stars and sports heroes they have actually done something but being born into the royal family drawing such adoration is just off. Oh and I know Diane did some good things…that did not get her where she got.
CW on December 9, 2012 at 10:46 AM
LOL
ShainS on December 9, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Public humiliation will drive some people over the edge. A young woman might kill herself. A man might show up at the radio station the next day with a gun. You just never know for sure.
Personally I just carry a grudge for 40 years and name names on the Internet.
Seth Halpern on December 9, 2012 at 10:55 AM
This “prank” just the new form of the paparazzi.
Before it would have very hard to find the number of the hospital for someone in Australia as there is no British phone book there. But now thanks to the internet you could find the number. There was the report that TMZ wanted a drone to fly over the “celebrities” houses to get the best photo or video from above. As there are cameras already everywhere in Britain under control of the government there will be even more cameras under control of the paparazzi.
tjexcite on December 9, 2012 at 10:58 AM
You nailed it.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Look at what you choose to focus on – emotional drivel, and guilt/shame. This stereotypical humorlessness is why so many men find so few women genuinely funny – I guess humor is more of a masculine trait?
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Excuse me, utterly misinformed one. Michelle Obama didn’t just SUGGEST that kids eat different food at school. She put a policy in place that forces the kids to get less food in their lunches. Even a skinny little young 15 year old girl we know is complaining she doesn’t get enough food. She DICTATES what schools will serve in lunches, while she goes out and pigs out on ribs and burgers and fries and shakes.
Michelle Obama is a HUGE hypocrite, and so are you.
JannyMae on December 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM
That’s the problem I have with this. If they committed fraud, then they should be punished and prosecuted.
As for the woman, herself. She, alone is responsible if she offed herself over this.
JannyMae on December 9, 2012 at 11:11 AM
The illogic of your argument may be due, in part, to the fact that you are starting with a faulty premise. Michelle Obama was criticized (not crucified) because she did far more than “suggest” that it would be “nice” if kids ate healthy foods at school; she spearheaded a federal government intervention that required schools to change their menus in a manner that was not only nutritionally suspect, but unappealing and unappetizing to the kids, resulting in hungry kids and enormous waste of both food and money.
AZCoyote on December 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Yeah, she did, if “nailing it” means “concisely demonstrating how Western civilization could never have been founded by people with a wimpy, politically correct, overly-emotional feminist perspective”!
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Actually, by “nailed it”, I’m saying that your callousness is, thankfully, not the norm in Western Culture.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM
What on earth is funny about humiliating a powerless person, especially one who is taking care of people who are sick and dying? Real men don’t do that. Cowards do.
Make fun of people in power all day long. Leave the little people alone.
One of the nurses where I go for my treatments is an older Indian woman. She has excellent technique, but she is extremely shy and deferential, no doubt because of where she was raised. If some jacka55 humiliated her on the radio, my rage would verge on being murderous.
Fortunately, all the men in my family are chivalrous. They are real men with great senses of humor, but who stick up for the powerless.
juliesa on December 9, 2012 at 11:23 AM
If it takes an incident like this to gain the proper perspective, it’s sad that the proper perspective was lost to begin with. Those DJs had phones and that is unfortunate. If they didn’t have phones, Jacintha would still be alive today.
22044 on December 9, 2012 at 11:23 AM
No fan of PC myself, but I agree.
22044 on December 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 11:28 AM
LOL I LOVE it when downbeat, controlling people like you pompously kvetch like this!
Know that your that charge of “callousness” against me is a pathetic and unsubstantiated/unprovable leftist one, which only serves to show confirmation bias on your part, and that it makes me laugh, not for any reason an overemotional person like you‘d endorse, however!
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Stay classy, mmmkkk?
22044 on December 9, 2012 at 11:30 AM
That wasn’t a kvetch (or a kvell). Just disagreement, and glad that most people choose kindness in the face of tragedy.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Dude, you’re way over thinking this. What in the world does any of this have to with feminism and leftism and western civ? I’m pretty sure the founding fathers weren’t into pestering the local medical workers for lulz. Duels were fought over insults to oneself or to a woman.
juliesa on December 9, 2012 at 11:36 AM
“humilitating”? Who made her be and feel humiliated? This is so pitiful and unempowering – it’s wimpy, socialistic feminist BS.
Look, that nurse who self-centeredly killed herself had serious emotional issues, which should be biggest issue here. Dragging the innocuous prank phone call into it diminishes this truth.
I say that your priorities are off the same way those who blame Javon Belcher’s gun for his murder-suicide escapade are.
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:39 AM
You can lecture me all you want, just as I am free to find your lecture offbase and laughable. Agree?
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:41 AM
I consider that it was a kvetch. What will you do in response, accuse me of callousness again?
You are suffering from confirmation bias, and don’t realize it.
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Um, speaking of over emotional… If you would calm down and read more carefully, you’d see I didn’t blame the DJs directly for her suicide. I think they’re giant a55holes though. It’s humiliating to be made fun of on the radio.
Javon Belcher is to blame for what he did. Duh. You are really making irratoonal extrapolations here, no offense.
As for what you said to Ladyculchavulcha–she is one of the best natured, unemotional, un-P.C. commenters here at Hotair, and she’s in far better control of her emotions than you are.
juliesa on December 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Have a great day.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Oh, gosh. Now I’m emotional. Don’t tell you-know-who, but…
Thanks, Juliesa!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 11:50 AM
I say that you are underthinking this.
You appear to be more upset with the prank callers than you do with the self-centered person who killed herself and abandoned her family in the process, which says to me that your priorities are out of whack – you are demonstrating a mindset from the same side of the fence of the bad-humored, socialistic drama queen libfreeordie, which should scare you!
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 9, 2012 at 11:50 AM
juliesa on December 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM
So, not only am I callous, I am overly emotional, too? lol
You are projecting, and suffering from confirmation bias, just like L.C. What will you do to prove me wrong, besides merely telling me that I am? That alone should give you insight about which of us is more overly emotional – I don’t believe you’ll figure this out, though!
Anti-Control on December 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM
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