Right after the hoax call, on Dec. 7th
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/07/tragedy-as-receptionist-who-connected-kate-middleton-prank-callers-commits-suicide.html

Both reports, same person: Jacintha Saldanha

Wonder why AP is releasing this news all over again

It was revealed yesterday or so that there was most certainly a note she wrote to her family which was found.

That removed the "doubt" question.

Today they revealed the method of suicide chosen, which obviously confirms even more the fact this was most certainly suicide, just as originally reported.

both about if it was still really news, and if it was really
a suicide. I see that it's yes, on both counts.

A nurse fooled by a hoax call to the London hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge was later found hanged, an inquest has heard.

Jacintha Saldanha was found dead in her nurses' quarters on Friday, three days after the call from Australian radio presenters pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles.

There were also injuries to her wrist, Westminster Coroner's Court heard.

The inquest was opened and adjourned until 26 March.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20710644

plz see http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014334440#post5

which just took place.

The conjecture on DU over this was downright embarrassing.

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Insofar as I thought about it all, I never thought anything other than that she killed herself. And generally I hate and avoid all tabloid-type threads. But you know what? It's an Internet board. Let people speculate. It is not inherently embarrassing to anyone. It is certainly not embarrassing to anyone who doesn't speculate, or to "DU in general."

You want to know what's embarrassing to DU?

Doublethink and double standards that rightly condemn Republican actions but justify the same actions by Democrats.

Those here who call themselves liberals but join the assault on earned benefits.

People in denial about the fundamental, widespread class-based criminality that runs this economy, above all in the financial sector. People who find excuses for Geithner and Holder catering to this criminal class of bankers.

People who should be leading on exposure of election fraud or deep state criminality, but who instead push denial.

People who push an essentially Republican program in Democratic guise. People who support wars and military buildups. Third Way and neoliberal programming.

That's embarrassing.

Some minor speculation for a few days about a nurse's suicide in the UK, not so much.

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You must have been one of the CTers. Otherwise, why would you give two shits what some random stranger finds embarrassing on an anonymous message board?

You're the one who initiated this by commenting on how embarrassing it was - to whom? - that some people posted things on an Internet board that you would not believe (as a matter of your constitution, apparently).

You're the one using labels that eschew ideas and instead condemn speakers per-se as fixed identities that you can trust or mistrust. An animal dichotomy: fight or flight? Us or them?

So sorry for you, in your safe little world of smugness and better knowing. A place where presumably the idols of this culture (like the UK "royalty&quot are never even conceivably the bad guys.

As I said, you should better be "embarrassed" by all the right-wing monstrosity on this board and in this culture, masqueraded as "democratic" or "underground."

You seem to be enjoying it. It's a silly argument you picked, and I just don't really care enough to discuss it.

Especially one with access to drugs, needles and sharp objects.

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among all groups, throughout the world.

Hanging is the most common method of suicide in the UK. Here are statistics for 2010:

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-statistics/england-wales-methods-suicide

21% of UK female suicides were by hanging. That's 247 women in the UK for 2010. Poisoning/overdose was more common among women, whereas hanging was the most common method among men.

In the US, almost 20 percent of female suicides in 2004 were by "Hanging, strangulation, suffocation," for a total of 1,356 women who killed themselves that way in this country in one year.

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

Not so many out of 300 million population, but nothing you could call "very rare."

You will find the same story in almost every country. Fewer women kill themselves than men (in the West, more make the attempt). Among those who do kill themselves, hanging usually will be one of the three most common methods.

I think culture was an influence in her decision about suicide in the face of humiliation. Regardless, hanging in India is in the top three.

Your stat shows it: 37 poison to 32 hanging in India, as opposed to more like 50 to 22 in UK.

Sad stuff regardless.