This is beyond sad..

Terribly sad.

And lets hope they are soon jobless and horrified.

yup I agree. . playing pranks should only ever be done when you know all, and I mean all, as in knowing them very very well, about the person you are playing a prank on. . this stoopid style of infantile behaviour that seems to delight Dj's is irresponsible to say the least..  clearly there was other things going on in that poor nurses life/head and this prank obviously tipped her over the edge. . apparently it was 5.30 in the morning .. regardless of this other outcome did they expect them to wake Kate up for a chat after she'd been puking for days. . that in itself was outrageous  ..they should have put the phone down when they realised they had got thru the security and could possibly be put thru to a sleeping patient. .idiots..

I hope those infantile DJ's  grow up a little after this awful side effect of their 'pranks' .. 

Really really tragic 

Ditty i used 'we' because i wasn't meaning 'you'.

I was commenting about society as a whole.

I'm sure you're a decent person. I am too.

...that's my take Pirate.     I expect EVERY radio station has/did make prank wind up calls like this, and I bet up until this afternoon they were all really jealous that the aussies pulled this one off.     I honestly think the poor woman must have had some sort of problem prior to this.  That said, being the 'last straw' (if indeed that's what happened) isn't going to make the djs feel any better.    

I agree Pirate and Kaffs. 

the media have been 'pranking' for years ... think Candid Camera and Game for a Laugh

Some of the remarks directed to this radiostation's FB page have me incredulous - you'd think the whole country of Australia is responsible for this 

Agree ...................a bit of fun 'gone wrong'. This suicide is indeed a tragedy but there is probably more to it.

I know security was breached but ....it was just a prank. Pranks have been a staple of TV and radio for years - it would be a sad old world if we couldn't have a laugh wouldn't it?

TBH - I feel a tad sorry for the DJ's. I don't see that they can be held responsible for this nurses very sad and tragic decision.

   pathetic.

   i do too 

Oh good god, you feel sorry for those unfunny morons?

Regardless of the nurse's suicide I always felt that those two prats should lose their job over this,  to try and get personal deatails about a patient by pretending to be family is FRAUD,  surely a crime, even in Australia.

I hate this kind of radio anyway, remember Russell (unfunny) Bland and Jonathan Ross, and their deeply unfunny prank? 

Hear hear.

Yep - another gross over reaction by the GBP

Can somebody save me looking back and point me in the direction of all the posts saying how disgusting the phone call was - before this news broke?  What? There weren't any?  Hmmmm...  Even the Royals took it in good part.

I'm sure the DJ's are devastated

Couldn't stand either of those programmes! As Janet Street Porter said today she thought that sort of prank had gone out in the 80's!

That said, very sad for the family

Very sad to say it is a sign of the 'Power' of the infantile media spreading it's curse ............

Yep, because telling a grand father about his grand daughter's sexual past and asking him not to kill himself over it wasn't all that bad was it, just jolly japes.

It did, but no one ever accused the Aussies of keeping up with the times.

Like everything else, it's horses for courses - there were a handful of complaints.   then the DM got involved and people who hadn't even heard it were complaining just because they don't like the people involved - and it just got stupid.         Likewise, as tragic as this girl's suicide is (and we only assume it's linked to the 'prank' remember) where were all the 'off with their heads' comments yesterday, or this morning?   There were none.... yes, maybe a few 'that's not really funny' comments, but nothing like the venom and outrage that's been voiced since the news broke.   What they did hasn't changed in the space of that news bulletin.

I wasn't and still am not "off with their heads", but I was and still am, sack the pair of unfunny fraudsters, and possible police involvment,  I'd like to see them laugh then,I had this opinion before todays news .

Im sure the nurse had other things going on in her head before this,  however this deeply unfunny joke and the worldwide embarrassment caused to this woman probably didn't help.

Is there any way of getting the personal phone numbers of the two radio "pranksters"?  I'd love to phone them on christmas eve and pretend to be their radio boss and tell them they are sacked.

Now thats funny, well it would be to me....thats justice.

I don't believe the DJ's set out to cause malice nor expected or wanted what followed.

A prank to a very sick pregnant woman who is married to a man who's mother was killed by the paparrazzi..I must have lost my sense of humour....There is more people here responsible than just the DJ's because this programme was recorded....

Whoever or whatever caused this lady to end her life is tragic for her family.

2Day FM: Same Station Behind Nurse Suicide Tricked 14-Year-Old Into Revealing Rape In 2009

Thats how I saw it too

This is very sad but i agree with Ditty, if it was suicide then she chose to leave her two children without a mother, those poor kids Has it been confirmed that it was suicide btw? It didn't say anything about it being suicide on the 10 o'clock news last night.

I too would like to know if she had mental health problems prior or some other distressing situation going on in her personal life, it all seems a little iffy to me.

What a tragic story. I saw this story unfold in the news this week.

Imo, the hoaxers should not be blamed here. Yes, they did the prank call etc, but the hospital should have had in place procedures concering royals and incoming phone calls. They obviously did not and the hoax call went through.

I can imagine, the world will now be watching this story and the 2 hoaxers will be treated with more contempt than they actually deserve.

Bottom line, Jacintha Saldanha, for whatever reason, decided to take her own life over this. DJ's, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, were not to blame.

It will be interestin to see how the nurse who divulged the confidential info is treated by the hospital.

There we will discover the true nature of the 'support' they offer those involved.

a bit off topic but this just shocked me!

It is not the first time the station has been condemned. In 2009, the Australian Communications and Media Authority imposed a licence condition for five years ordering 2Day FM to provide increased protection for children after a 14-year-old was attached to a lie detector test and admitted to being raped live on air.

Did you read the full report up there though Jen?

 a 14-year-old girl [who had been] dragged on the 2Day FM radio show by her mother

The mother then asked her daughter: “Have you ever had sex?”

The 14-year-old replied: “I’ve already told you the story about this and don’t look at me and smile because it’s not funny.” After a pause she then raised her voice and said: “Oh OK … I got raped when I was 12 years old.”

Just who's the guilty part in that one?

I agree with all this - they didn't expect for one second to put through, never mind be given any information.     Not being that funny in the opinion of some people wasn't a hanging offence last time I looked.

That would be the mother then. I hadn't read that Kaffy just read that bit pasted on a news site this morning

Shocking isnt' it?    .... and yet from what I see it's the radio station that's getting pilloried for it.   Look at what is says in the editorial too  "they bullied a minor into revealing a rape that happened two-years prior."    As if they KNEW about it - they didn't, but the mother who was driving it did.  

Poor girl Her 'mother' sounds great

Even Jeremy Kyle has a 16year age limit....

At times like this, the British press makes me thoroughly sick.

How the press can try to claim the radio station is responsible is beyond me. 

It's the British press that whipped up an indignant angry mob supposedly on royalty's behalf.  Totally unneeded and unwanted.  It is the British press that made a mountain out of a molehill.  Prank calling is a routine part of radio. 

The Mirror today wrote that this is the last thing "Kate needs".  Well stuff Kate, she's an irrelevance.  A woman in a caring profession felt so vilified she killed herself.  Vilified by our bloody press.