sentences:  On January 24, 2006, the day before her 67th birthday, she ended her life.The film was shown on BBC1 on January 25, 2009.British maestro Sir Edward Downes, who conducted the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Opera but struggled in recent years (but was not terminally ill) as his hearing and sight failed, died with his wife, who had terminal cancer, at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland in July 2009.