Daily Mail
Nurse who committed suicide after royal phone prank had attempted it before
The nurse who committed suicide after answering a hoax phone call about the Duchess of Cambridge made two attempts to kill herself last winter and had been prescribed antidepressants.
Jacintha Saldanha, who took her own life days after the call from Australian DJs pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles, attempted to commit suicide last December with an overdose of pills during a family visit to India.
She survived after being rushed to hospital but tried to commit suicide again just nine days later by apparently jumping from a building.
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This has nothing to do with anything that a couple of DJs did and everyone should stop acting like it does.
Mark1971 on December 23, 2012 at 5:40 PM
Sad, but not surprising. I’ve said before that public humiliation was the least of her problems. May her family find peace.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 23, 2012 at 5:44 PM
If prank calling made people kill themselves, then liberals would be calling for Phone Control.
BigGator5 on December 23, 2012 at 5:44 PM
A gentle reminder to be kind to people you don’t know.
Paul-Cincy on December 23, 2012 at 5:46 PM
Well, that explains it. This is usually the case with suicides. Those DJs have been getting all kinds of death threats that they didn’t deserve.
juliesa on December 23, 2012 at 5:47 PM
Or they’d be busily calling in to Rush Limbaugh’s show.
Stoic Patriot on December 23, 2012 at 5:51 PM
And to people you do know. You don’t know what they’re going through. A little kindness could make all the difference in the world. Between life and death even.
vityas on December 23, 2012 at 5:53 PM
My gripe is that the DJs obtained through fraud, private medical information. They and their station were aholes.
Blake on December 23, 2012 at 5:55 PM
Managers were the ones who put it on the air.. DJs didn’t even think they’d get through. This isn’t shocking.
Illinidiva on December 23, 2012 at 6:09 PM
I know you and I disagreed about this story before, but this is a post I can fully support.
If you believe that prank callers were being “unkind” in some way, you define the word differently than I do.
Anti-Control on December 23, 2012 at 7:11 PM
Whether they put it on the air or not is irrelevant. No one at that station had the right to know any private medical information.
Blake on December 23, 2012 at 7:18 PM
Heh. Your memory’s better than mine!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 23, 2012 at 7:47 PM