Assisted suicide or her serious and insistent request, will be sentenced to a term of imprisonment (Gefängnis). For instance, it should be the suicide subject who actually presses the syringe or takes the pill, after the helper had prepared the setup. This way the country can criminalise certain controversial acts, which many of its people would oppose, while legalising a narrow range of assistive acts for some of those seeking help to end their lives. In July 2009, British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Joan died together at a suicide clinic outside Zürich "under circumstances of their own choosing". Sir
Edward Downes (American musicologist) for Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., preparing briefing books for the Office of Strategic Services. Downes taught at Wellesley College, the Longy School of Music, the University of Minnesota. Much of the end of his career was as a professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he taught and advised doctoral students. Downes was at one time music critic of "The Boston Evening Transcript", "The New York Post". Downes also wrote program notes for the New York Philharmonic for eighteen years. In 1955, after his father died, Downes went to work for