In order to clearly understand the issue regarding opinions of a physician’s duty, one can refer to the case of French doctor Nicolas Bonnemaison. The doctor was “accused of killing” seven terminally ill patients and convicted of killing one. Despite facing a potential life in prison, his condemnation was adjourned as the judge ruled that his actions had good intentions- and therefore, he was not a murderer. Bonnemaison’s case is an excellent representation of how the differing beliefs work, or don’t work, together; he was clearly in favour of the practice of euthanasia due to his belief that it was showing the patients mercy, the high court were following the law by opposing the practice and viewing it as murder, and the prosecutors were in
