Report: "More Murder by Swiss Euthanasia Group"

Busy week for me, so commentary will be brief ... sorry to start a Wednesday with such a depressing story:

LONDON – British conductor Edward Downes, a longtime stalwart at the Royal Opera and maestro of the first-ever performance at Sydney's iconic Opera House, has died with his wife Joan at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. He was 85 and she was 74.

The couple's children said Tuesday that the couple died "peacefully and under circumstances of their own choosing" on Friday at a Zurich clinic run by the group Dignitas. (AP)

For a Catholic take on this, see the Courtier's analysis.