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feel so sorry for the nurse, really never expected it and it's an awful shame, especially as i've seen great things said about her as a nurse. :( not sure how to feel for the djs, it was a really silly prank but i guess they never thought it'd go this far and things.
yeah i feel sorry for them all, if it was just pressure from media or her own mental health then i feel bad for the DJs getting the backlash of it while i feel bad for her for feeling so bad that she had to take her life.
Hmm she probably would of got in trouble for divulging Kate's personal information?
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Australian radio station says hosts behind Kate Middleton hoax will not return to show until further notice - statement via @NBCNews
Definitely the radio companys fault. The show was pre-recorded, so much like the whole Ross/Brand scandal with Radio 1, the radio bosses chose to air the prank call, even when they knew that had accidentally got private medical information. The people that decided to broadcast it should have known that there would have been bad implications for the people involved at the hospital.
I mean, if they decided NOT to broadcast this phone call, this nurse would still be alive. At the end of the day, the prank call has ultimately led to events that have caused her to kill herself.
And *why* would you prank a hospital anyway, when people are busy doing their jobs, and saving lives. It's not far off prank calling 999 really.
Of course we don't know the pressure that the hospital put on the two nurses, and that probably had some sort of effect as well.
I mean, if Jonathan Ross and Russel Brand get suspended and fired from BBC Radio 1 for calling some dude's granddaughter a ****, then what the hell should happen to the people involved with this? And just to be clear again, I'm not putting all the blame on the DJs - whoever let it be broadcast is equally as guilty.
Shocking outcome, RIP.
Somebody posted this on FaceBook and I agree with it to a certain extent;
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To be fair there's also a fair bit of hypocrisy going on over here as lots of people were posting on FB & Twitter the other day about how funny it was. Nobody could have foreseen this tragic outcome. It's pretty devastating for everyone involved in this from all signs and most of all for the poor nurse. But people crying out about hoax calls being wrong after millions of radio listeners around the world have laughed at them for years, is a little bit hypocritical, I think.
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As sad as the story is, the nurse made the decision to kill herself - nobody 'forced' this on her. It is quite clearly an innocent joke gone far wrong, and we don't know what other issues the nurse had going on. I think for somebody to kill themselves over an incident such as this, especially when their identity remained secret is far overblown.
The only pressure I can think of (that we don't know about) will be the pressure the hospital itself placed on the nurse. But of course, we don't know what has gone or what has been said - but had the event remained small in the public eye and the hospital applied the same pressure - then we could have just as well had the same outcome.
A sad story, but the radio presenters are doing what all radio presenters do - play live pranks, and with this one they just happened to get very lucky in terms of a high profile story.
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That's awful :( Her poor family must be hurting so much right now too. I hope the media etc havent caused this by going over the top with it and leading her to feel guilty etc Even if it had been kept private it would have been hard enough, but the way so many people knew would add a lot of pressure I think
It doesn't seem like the prank call has anything to do with it - the media didn't really make a big deal out of the hoax call and there wasn't any information suggesting the nurse would be in serious trouble, considering she didn't really give out any details (as far as I am aware at least). As some others have said, there does seem to be something else we're not being told. The DJs are stupid, but I wouldn't say this was their fault -she committed suicide, she wasn't murdered.