Julijonas Urbonas, engineer and artist, has created the most spectacular method of assisted suicide to ever grace our civilization:

“‘Euthanasia Coaster’ is a hypothetical 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.”

Far from the death machine of Kafka’s ‘Penal Colony’, which was designed with the intention of inviting its subject into eternal esoteric bliss through a torturous blood-letting, the Euthanasia Coaster inspires the thought that even the last few moments toward death should reflect the famous analogy for life; that it is indeed a roller coaster.

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