Taking a seat aboard the aptly named Euthanasia Coaster may prove to be deadly ride, if the roller coaster ride were more than a concept. While most rides are billed as “death-defying”, the Euthanasia Coaster is designed specifically to kill its riders.
Designed by a Royal College of Art PhD student Julijonas Urbonas, the ride is described as follows:
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely — with elegance and euphoria — take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful.
It’s doubtful that the coaster will ever get built, so until then, we’ll have to be content with remaking the roller coaster in simulations like Rollercoaster Tycoon 3.
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