Deleting Hard Drive from Mac Book

How do I delete he Hard Drive from Mac Book? If I go to Disk Utilities and deleting, everything is light grey and I cannot chose deleting. Does anyone know about this? Thank you!

I have a Mac Book Pro from the end of 2012 with Mavericks 10.9.1. I did not get a starting DVD or CD when I bough it. Now I want to give it to someone else and wipe the Hard Drive of course. WIth an IPhone, or IPad I did this and I thought that I also did it with a former Mac Book. But now I have not a clue how this can work and also didn´t find really something helpful in the internet. It seems I shall or can start it from the Internet and wipe the Harddrive?
THank you for the help.

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