A very sad story. This is why I will not engage in pranks. Somebody innocent is always the victim of some spohomoric yahoo who thinks its funny.
This poor woman was humiliated beyond what she could stand. Right or wrong, she saw only one way to get past that humiliation.
I hope she has found peace, and I hope it is a very long time before the pranksters do.

Well, they wanted to be known internationally. Not everyone around the world will remember their names, but they will certainly be remembered for their prank.

How tragic for the poor woman who blamed herself for everything, and for her family and friends. Heartbreaking that she was tormented to the point of suicide.

God Bless and keep her.

I sincerely hope the Australian government takes action against these two bullies; Jacinthia´s blood is on their hands.

"take action"? I wonder what action that should be?

They tricked a professional into violating her code of conduct. Hospitals, their workers and their patients are off limits for pranks. People´s lives are at stake. This is tragic.

This article tells NOTHING of WHY this person committed suicide. This is a perfect example of terrible reporting. This article "reports" everything about the prank and the reaction but nothing about why this nurse may have thought that misdirecting a phone call was worth killing herself. She did absolutely NOTHING wrong.

Methinks that there is much behind the scenes that is not being reported. The hospital claims that the nurse was not reprimanded. Really? It also says that Kate & Harry did not complain. Is that absolutely true? What might have been going on with this woman´s life to cause such a drastic measure?

Something stinks other than the classless prank.

Just maybe Jacintha was a lady who took her job as a nurse very seriously.

Being from India, Jacintha obviously did not recognize the bogus British accent nuances that were being used by the Australian pranksters on the phone that probably would have been quickly recognized by a native British English speaker. Once the phone call was transfered on, with the caller said to be the Queen, it was all down hill from there.

When you listen to the telephone recording, really the nurses did not give out any information about their patient that was not already being reported in the international media. The nurse said that the patient was sleeping, was dehydrated when she was admitted to the hospital, and was put on an IV to hydrate her. The nurse also said that the patient would be "freshing up" soon. Anyone who has been in a hospital knows that what the nurse said usually is routine drill that patients go through in most hospitals. Big deal.

How quickly the worm turns.

But even before the suicide, I didn´t find the prank funny. Most pranks are so juvenile, they can hardly be considered clever. At best, pranks are merely thoughtless; at worst, they´re sadistic.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned humor -- the kind that didn´t aim to humiliate someone?

The required shtick for every so-called comedian these days is sarcasm and ridicule. Funny ? Not really.
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I do not understand suicide, period. But, over a stupid prank? There has to be more here than meets the eye. I hate pranks of any kind and these radio stations go way too far. The perpetrators deserve to be fired, but they deserved that before this poor woman ended her life.

Humor now is primarily a passive-aggressive attack on another person. The purpose is to put someone down or ridicule them and when called on they can say, "just kidding...what´s your problem?"

Doesn´t anything have to be said about a society which so honors the blue bloods that one would take one´s own life as "payment" for such "humiliation"? How plausible is this in America, should someone have disguised his voice to replicate Obama´s, inquiring about a family member in the hospital? If the ruse worked, would the "fall guy" kill himself? I doubt that a lot. Our founding fathers were wise beyond measure to prohibit such a royal caste system in America.

I think there had to be some deeper issues in her life, and that this was just the last straw, so to speak. Bless her heart. Even Kate and Wills didn´t blame anyone for what happened, and the Queen, Charles and Camilla didn´t, either. I feel so badly for her, but I´m very glad the Palace didn´t berate anyone for what happened. I´m guessing strong words were issued by the hospital itself, if there were any.

I hate pranks and practical jokes. I guess prank to me is more serious, but anything that makes another person look a fool is just not funny to me. I can laugh at myself as well as anyone, and it wouldn´t bother me nearly so much for myself as it bothers me on behalf of those being pranked.

Gotta be some underlying reasons for this

I too think there is more to the story. It´s hard to believe she comitted suicide over this prank.

Agree, #6. The nurse, Jacintha, merely transferred a telephone call. Hardly a reason to kill herself, unless she was heavily reprimanded by her bosses, or teased mercilessly by co-workers, etc. She wasn´t even the person who spoke to the radio DJs.

There has to be a lot more to this story.