Lets get serious.
Was all the furore caused by the jaw flapping of a couple of arrested development juveniles, possibly augmented, by stalled frontal lobe maturation?
Who probably forgot to engage brain before putting mouth into gear?
Or the instinctive snapping turtle effect, from London, where they went belligerent, bellicose ballistic, over a harmless prank!
[The dead Nurse's husband seems to be extremely critical of the hospital's response?]
Simply because right royal blood was the target of this asinine obtuse attempt at humour?
Had the target been Smith or Jones, would the over the top reaction, been the same?
Or would Mrs Smith, Smythes-dale or Jones, be expected to, grin and bear it, laugh it off; or, simply ignore it with the very obvious contempt, such infantile jaw flapping deserves?
Perhaps a blood test might have revealed quite high levels of disinhibiting substances, or substance abuse?
In any event, can any sane person claim with any degree of surety or certainty, what was the thing that drove this poor woman, to this remedy?
The prank?
Or, the how dare you, such impertinence, right royal reaction to it; particularly, on the part of the hospital; and or, those who may have repeatedly "counselled" the lass, after she was already thoroughly humiliated, by her own innocent, naive, trusting lack of sophistication/judgement; and complicity, long after the deed and any harm ensuing from it, was already done?
Rhrosty

a worse problem than that of a few pranksters is the emptiness that we have built into a generation that would even considering topping themselves because some fool comments on facebook or social media. The indulgence defies belief.

What a sorrowful episode all round.

First a couple of empty headed smart asses, who go a bit too far, trying to be funny. Wouldn't it be nice if these people would stop trying so hard.

The poor nurse, who must have had more than a few problems, for such a minor thing to be the tipping point for her.

Then the family, who will never be the same.

Then the British press going too far by a factor of about 5, so relieved to point the finger at someone else, rather than have it pointed at them.

It seems to be a growing part of our media culture to “prank”. What we actually mean is someone with an advantage manipulates someone into doing something they would not normally do.

In such circumstances the perpetrator(s) must interrogate the law of unintended consequences. It is not acceptable to take the authority to prank without accepting full responsibility for the outcomes. This principle comes first.

Then we get to the second part, mitigation. This is where we all get to see what went wrong. In this case it remains speculation for the moment but you can immediately see where some people put the mitigation before the act, a good example is “oh well, nobody could have foreseen the outcome. Rubbish, what is actually meant is that nobody looked. Such pranks are perpetrated by the mentally immature, image hungry jocks.

Some can be very funny and I’ve had my share of laughs but they are very cheap laughs that satisfy a juvenile need for satisfaction of the immediacy.

A mature perspective on events like this is very simple, you should have thought about it first. Too late for some.

Hasbeen.
The idea that this prank went "too far' is wrong, I'm one of those people who believe journalists are about level in the food chain with child molesters but this idea they are promoting today that the presenters "went too far" is really beyond the pale, even for such lowlifes.
The prank succeeded in it's aims and went no further, suicide is NEVER anyone else's fault, the responsibility lies solely with the person who takes their own life.

Runner,
Wrong, people should be punished for bullying others but, as above,nobody can be held accountable for another person's actions including suicide, only for their own conduct in relation to that person.