1.   Prosecutors say Schat breached so many euthanasia guidelines they have to charge him with murder.

2.   Dutch euthanasia guidelines stipulate that only physicians can perform euthanasia, and only on patients who have repeatedly and lucidly requested the procedure to relieve unbearable suffering.

3.   Dutch euthanasia guidelines also require that patients must be suffering from unbearable and irremediable pain.

4.   Dutch euthanasia guidelines also require that patients must also be suffering from unbearable and irremediable pain.

5.   Dutch euthanasia guidelines stipulate that patients must repeatedly and lucidly request death while suffering intolerable pain.

6.   Government euthanasia guidelines demand that patients must repeatedly and lucidly ask for death.

7.   His trial, which began in District court Wednesday, marks the first court test of the euthanasia guideline that requires recipients to express their death wish.

8.   In mercy killing cases where the euthanasia guidelines are not adhered to, suspects are routinely charged with murder.

9.   Instead, the adult euthanasia guidelines are appended to the Dutch laws for disposal of the dead.

10.   Nevertheless, prosecutors still pursue doctors who violate euthanasia guidelines, and a handful of cases make it to court each year.