British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife die at Swiss clinic

This evening I was watching the tv news, and I found this.

The distinguished British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Lady Joan have ended their lives at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich, their children revealed today.

Rather than struggle on with their health problems, they decided to end their lives peacefully together last Friday, “under circumstances of their own choosing”.

They follow more than 100 British people in making the journey to die in Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal.