Professor William Binchy:

The Deputy got to the core of the matter with his question. In a situation where a person goes to a medical person and says he or she has a medical condition, life is meaningless and he or she wants to end it now, the Deputy asks how anybody could say "No" in those circumstances.

When I put to the Deputy the case of a person who does not have a medical condition but has a situational condition, for example, a family breakdown, no job and housing difficulties, he says it is an entirely different question. Respectfully-----