"I am very touched and relieved to hear this news. There were days when I thought I would never hear the outcome," says Paola Roldan, who brought a lawsuit before Ecuador's Constitutional Court to decriminalize euthanasia, after the court ruled in her favor. Roldan, who is bedridden and breathes through an oxygen tube, suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurological disease also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. SOUNDBITES