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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.'"
... and there isn't a thing elegant about it.
Too dangerous.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
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!
If you're in a wheelchair, do they let you jump to the front of the line?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Obviously this is just a [stupid] publicity stunt, but most of the people that I know that would (would have) opted for euthanasia were elderly. They wouldn't be the type to board a roller coaster.
They do need an option that is better than putting a gun to the head.
So if a Carnie screws up, do people survive?
crazy dynamite monkey
It's funny not a single person who rode it had any complaints after the experience.
crazy dynamite monkey
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 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.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
This was my thought as well. Some acceleration can be fun, but it is very uncomfortable beyond a certain point, and enough to kill you would be extremely painful. You want death to be either non-violent or extremely quick, if possible. This is neither. And several minutes of anticipation? Fuck no. I'll take a morphine OD (which seems painless from what I know of it), if it comes to that.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
The red bull air race has a limit of 12g - indicating that pilots can survive even that much.
I have witnessed pilots exceed 12g and be disqualified because of it - and the same pilot complained that the 12g limit was stupid. The limit is there to stop pilots from pushing it too far, in a bid to curb "lap" times.
However, how many super-fit and healthy people would be interested in euthanasia? not many I'd guess.
This seemed like a reasonable sig at the time.