French Kevorkian Acquitted, Just Like Jack

Nicolas Bonnemaison is a French doctor who actively ended the lives of seven terminally ill patients on their request.



Bonnemaison, a former emergency room doctor, was accused of "poisoning particularly vulnerable people" – five women and two men who died between March 2010 and July 2011.



Like the multiple Michigan juries that acquitted Jack Kevorkian, this week, a French jury acquitted Bonnemaison of all charges. Jurors accepted Bonnemaison’s argument that he had not “played God” but  had taken medically justified decisions to curtail the agony of patients who had only a short time to live.