Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster"

disco_tracy writes "Lithuanian amusement park worker and current PhD candidate in London's Royal College of Art's Design Interactions department, Julijonas Urbonas, has made a design for a hypothetical coaster that could be the future of humane euthanasia. Urbonas says that it is engineered to give a person a way to die with 'with elegance and euphoria.' From the article: 'The three-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb -- nearly a third of a mile long -- that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops. The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the gravitational force -- 10 Gs -- from the spinning loops at 223 miles per hour in that single minute is lethal.'"

Comments

It'll never fly

[ColdWetDog]

Too dangerous.

Re:It'll never fly

[CaptainPatent]

Besides, hundreds of rollercoasters just like this have been designed before...

It was called Roller Coaster Tycoon.

Cheaper design: The Drop of Doom

[md65536]

I have a design for a "ride" that involves a long, slow climb up a large staircase, followed by a massive fall and one strategically placed sidewalk. I think it's the future of euthanasia!

So...

[aardvarkjoe]

If you're in a wheelchair, do they let you jump to the front of the line?

Operator Error?

[decipher_saint]

So if a Carnie screws up, do people survive?

Re:Something the academic forgot

[decipher_saint]

It's funny not a single person who rode it had any complaints after the experience.

Re:I've seen people die...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

My god man! Were you raised by wolves?

You don't think it "Euphoric" to die by being centrifugally-forced into shitting out your internal organs?

No, Mr. Bond...

[dorianh49]

No, Mr. Bond... I expect you to ride.

Re:Inert gases are the way to go

[DamienNightbane]

Helium would be the best choice. All the effectiveness of nitrogen, but with the added benefit of the person's last moments being hilarious to any onlookers.

The Architects Sketch! The Architects Sketch!

[HTH NE1]

The guests arrive in the entrance hall here, are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these large containers. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows inconveniencing passers-by with this one.