If you only had month to go , would you rather wither away in a infirmary bed or go out on the ride of your life ? That ’s the construct behind the euthanasia coaster , a most extreme thrill drive .
A Lithuania - born applied scientist , artist and former entertainment park employee , Julijonas Urbonasmade headlines in 2010 with his provocative design for a euthanasia coaster , aroller coasterexpressly designed to thrill and then vote down its riders .
" Current euthanasia machines are medicalized , secularized , unsex , " enounce Urbonas in avideo about his death coaster . " It ’s a euthanasia machine in the form of a tumbler pigeon coaster , orchestrate to — humanely , and with euphory and pleasure — kill a human being . "
Urbonas build the coaster ’s scurf fashion model , which at full sizing would post riders plummeting down a 1,640 - foot ( 500 - meter ) near - vertical bead before entering the first of seven consecutive ( and consecutively tighter ) loop . The incredible speed of the bead coupled with the speedy inversion would submit rider to keep up 10 GB - force for a full second . The excessive gravitational forces would rush blood to the extremity , starving the brain of O . After losing consciousness , brain death would quickly follow .
" At first , what was designed was just the black go down flight with no role but one : to kill the passenger pleasurably and elegantly,“he say the publication Ladbiblein 2021 . " It was a sort of a designed opinion experiment of what the ultimate roller coaster would be like and what possible usages it would be open to … [ like ] an alternative destruction ritual appeal to both the individual and the mourning public . "
Urbonas also tell apart Ladbible that the hypothetical mercy killing machine was engineer with the help of scientists and experts from areas like aerodynamics . His intention was not to convince citizenry that it would be built but rather that it could be progress . " It piss the public immerse themselves in the narrative and forces them to think about such sensitive issues , " he said .
Interestingly , this was n’t Urbonas ' first roller coaster ( although hopefully the first to by choice kill someone ) . He work out as a drive designer at several Lithuanian amusement park before incite to London to pursue a Ph.D. in innovation interactions .
A TikTok video explaining the euthanasia coasterwent viralin 2021 , activate renewed involvement . But as of the time of this publication , the euthanasia roller coaster stay just a construct .
Euthanasia Roller Coaster - the Movie
Designs for the mercy killing coaster made the rounds of European museums and heading , which is where filmmakerGlenn Patonencountered the macabre flush drive . Paton made a fabricated short movie , " H Positive , " about a man work up a euthanasia coaster — one so brawny , it causes intellectual hypoxia , thus suffocate the genius but ensuring a euphoric expiry .
" It was unconvincing ! " said Paton , who first saw a poster - size of it image of Urbonas ' model coaster in a London drift . " I ’m quite into decease , you see . I remember looking at my girlfriend and saying , ' This would be an amazing inadequate film . ' "
At the time , Paton was working as a TV conductor for advert agencies , but he was depend to break into moving-picture show . The death coaster strike him as the perfect idea for a high-pitched - concept short pic .
" H Positive , " Paton ’s seven - minute movie , is a disturbing ( and fictional ) portrait of a man who seemingly has everything — money , power , success — when he is confront with a terminal diagnosis . Unwilling to relinquish control , even to death , he commissions the construction of an elaborate political machine to take his life and seal his temporal fame .
" He ’s basically a complete a – fix , " joked Paton , when we spoke to him in 2016 . " He ’s doing it strictly out of selfishness . He wants to become famed in a unequaled way .
" Maybe I ’m extremely selfish as well , " he continued . " I remember state to my girl at the art showing , ' If I ever had a prolonged terminal illness , I ’d rather go out with a bang … I ’d rather people commemorate me being ' fun Glenn , ' not this guy cable in the infirmary lento wither off . "
In the meantime , the questions in the beginning nurture by Urbonas ' radical coaster go forward to vibrate . Physician - assisted suicideremains illegal in all butsix European state and seven U.S. country . Even in those places , patients must be in the last stages of a last sickness and prove that they are suffering unendurable pain in the neck .
