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The Suicide / Euthanasia Roller Coaster
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The Suicide / Euthanasia Roller Coaster
"According to artist Julijonas Urbonas's website, his work Euthanasia Coaster is "a hypothetic roller coaster, engineered to humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being." In simpler terms, it's a carnival ride that kills you, though not before you have a spiritual experience along the way. The Euthanasia Coaster starts with a long, slow incline before a quarter-mile fall, which leads into a series of loops that are designed to create so much centrifugal force that you won't be able to breathe, finally dying from lack of oxygen to your brain.
"The coaster may seem like a gimmick, but it turns out to be an art piece as humane as it is shocking and terrifying. Urbonas mentions that his roller coaster could be used in a theoretical future to curb overpopulation, or to help people who feel their life has gone on "too long." Sure, the whole idea sounds like a black metal concept album, but Urbonas's death device was created to serve a sympathetic purpose—to give someone the ability to bow out of life with one final, lethal thrill."
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