TY - SER TI - El enfermo terminal: Derechos. Aspectos psicológicos y cuidados de enfermería SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 59 N2 - Human rights, born from the French Revolution, as legal articles, have had an ecumenical declaration since 1948, thanks to the United Nations. But, just as Orwell spoke of animals with more rights than others, both the geographical-political extension of the article, as well as its undifferentiated application, are still utopian. Children and women immediately appear as two neglected sectors beyond those general reasons that can cause marginalization, such as race, political and religious ideas. At the same level, the hospitalized patient is another being deprived of rights, without objective explanation. In this sense, the word patient would have clear connotations and, also, that the right to health can annul others, inherent to the person. This work places such rights in the hospital context and studies, in general, the situation of the dying person. But, also, it proposes the analysis of a specific case of terminal illness: theory and practice ER -