what is the disadvantages of euthanasia?

Answer 1

None - many young people should visit China.
Sorry, ' couldn't resist this old joke

Seriously, the problem is deciding when it is OK. It's the old "slippery slope" argument. Once it is OK to end the lives of end stage cancer patients who request it - why not paraplegics? - why not renal dialysis patients? - why not depressed people?
- and so on.
What judge is capable of deciding life or death?
The doctor? The lawyer? The public? A family member?
Any system allowing assisted death could be abused.

Added note for "Popofosh" - When I went though med school in the 70s, no one asked me or any of my classmates to take the Hippocratic Oath. I would have taken it. I believe it,
but we didn't have to take it - not in 1977 at least.

Answer 2

as of right now it is a moral question. bordering the pro-life issue. and it is against one of the first promises in the Hippocratic oath that doctors have to take it says:

"I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect."

oh and maybe like everything else it can somehow be abused and used in the wrong circumstances.

if euthanasia becomes widely accepted it might put the poor at a disadvantage to health care. surgery's that are needed now could be seen as "optional"

i don't know, just some ideas :)

Answer 3

Also, a lot of patients who are chronically ill will feel pressure to relief the burden that they have "created". Even though it is not their fault that they are sick. The ill patient may decide to go with euthanasia for the sake of the family. Whether it be finicial issues, increased time and demand for attention and care from the family, and emotional distress. If a patient chooses euthanasia for these reasons it would have nothing to do with the patients desire to die and therefore would be for the convience of others. Very slippery.