Daytona Beach Police responded to a hospital after a terminally ill patient was shot and killed in his bed. The suspect is a physician at the hospital and also the patient's wife. She barricaded herself in the hospital room and created a four-hour long standoff with police. Eventually, she surrendered - and now is facing criminal charges in the death of her husband. Police say she shot him as part of a murder-suicide pact that she was not able to completely go through with.

• Analyze the case as if you were a member of an ethics committee providing an ethics consultation.
• Identify the parties involved in the case.
• Compare and contrast medical ethics principles from our required reading assignments with the legal implications of the case. What ethical principles were violated?