uld be legalized all over the world.
             To begin with, the first person affected in this discussion is the patient or the incurable person. Some people, like the ones engaged in the Hemlock Organization of the United States, are favourable to euthanasia taking into account the patient's rights given by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, that declares: "The foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world" is the "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family" which was supplemented with the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 6 of which states: "Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law". They also add "and the inherent right to die" (www.hemlock.org, 2004) supporting this idea in the lack of dignity that some incurable patients have to bear when their lifes are being enlarged. These people would argue that every person has got the right to decide about his or her life and that a life reduced to being cared as if they were infants, diapered and fed by nurses or being in a vegetative state is a life not worth living. They believe that a human being has the right to die in dignity and have a painless death rather than suffer endlessly knowing full well that they will not recover. But some problems come out when a patient wants to end his or her life. Many times terminally ill patients who desire death are depressed and depression is treatable in those with terminal illness. In one study, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who desired death, all had clinical depression (www.euthanasia.com, 2003). In other cases, people with illnesses and disabilities would be poorly informed about their conditions and their future prospects because doctors are not always accurate. Therefore, the decision to engage in assisted suicide coul...