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Conductor Downes, Wife End Lives in Swiss Suicide Clinic

Couple faced failing health

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 14, 2009 10:18 AM CDT

(Newser) – British conductor Edward Downes and his wife, Joan, have died at a Swiss suicide clinic, ending their lives “under circumstances of their own choosing,” the couple’s children said today. Downes, 85, was largely blind and Joan, 74, had cancer, the Times of...   Read full story »

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