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Focus: Assisted suicide: I watched as my parents faced their dignified, peaceful death - together: When the conductor Sir Edward Downes and his terminally ill wife Joan decided to end their lives, their daughter Boudicca was one of the first to be told. She tells why she supported them and describes their last moments at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich
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Focus: Assisted suicide: I watched as my parents faced their dignified, peaceful death - together: When the conductor Sir Edward Downes and his terminally ill wife Joan decided to end their lives, their daughter Boudicca was one of the first to be told. She tells why she supported them and describes their last moments at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich
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Focus: Assisted suicide: I watched as my parents faced their dignified, peaceful death - together: When the conductor Sir Edward Downes and his terminally ill wife Joan decided to end their lives, their daughter Boudicca was one of the first to be told. She tells why she supported them and describes their last moments at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich
2009
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\"He told me that my mum had cancer,\" said Boudicca, her voice wavering as she recalled the conversation with Sir Edward Downes, the world-famous conductor. \"He told me of the last two weeks, of the checks mum had been having, and the various doctor appointments. And he told me the prognosis: a matter of months, possibly weeks. Then he just said, 'so we've decided, we're both going to Switzerland'.\" \"Mum was not frightened of dying, but she was frightened of a living death,\" she said. \"She loved her life and she was infuriated by any type of illness, even a cold, by anything that sapped her energy levels because she had stuff to do,\" said [Boudicca]. \"The idea of being increasingly weak, fragile and tired in the last weeks of her life were unbearable.\" Even at 74, [Joan] was the only person with more energy than her 3-year-old grandson, Zeki. They were given anti-nausea liquid, and after half an hour they swallowed the lethal shot that would bring their \"wonderful lives\" to an end. \"It was calm and dignified - as they wanted,\" said Boudicca. \"I will always know that they had a peaceful death - together.\"
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