WHEEEE!!! Euthanasia by roller coaster!!!

[backscatter712]

Well, here's one way to go out! A special roller coaster designed for euthanasia.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/euthanasia-sucicide-rollercoaster-ride-110919.html

Want to enjoy the ride of your life along with the last ride of your life? That's what Julijonas Urbonas envisions with his Euthanasia Coaster.

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.

According to Urbonas, the "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."

[Eddie Haskell]

1. I'd rather skydive w/o a chute.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Julijonas Urbonas?

[Iggo]

6. Julie Jonas my what now?

[footinmouth]

3. I'd die of fright on the way up

[hlthe2b]

12. ditto....

[Blue_Tires]

4. i know it's just an academic exercise

but he does get points for original thinking...

[tridim]

5. I'd call that morbid, not humane.

Who the hell would come up with an idea like that?

Doctor K had it exactly right.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. people should have the right to choose the way they want to go

if that's what they want, hey, more power to 'em.

[tridim]

10. I agree with that, but this is a single-purpose, multi-million dollar death machine.

Are there bleachers for spectators too? Weird.

[backscatter712]

8. Julijonas Urbonas, that's who.

:evilgrin:

[undeterred]

9. Creates jobs for people who will clean up the ride.

[qb]

11. A variation for the more horror-minded of the doomed...

[Turbineguy]

13. Expect more of these sorts

of inventions in the coming Republican Paradise.

[Kerrytravelers]

14. Just when I think I've heard it all...

[pokerfan]

15. The Architects

Mr Wiggin: Good morning, gentlemen. This is a twelve-storey block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, and 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...
First City Gent: Excuse me....
Mr Wiggin: Hm?
First City Gent: Did you say knives?
Mr Wiggin: Rotating knives, yes.
Second City Gent: Are you proposing to slaughter our tenants?
Mr Wiggin: Does that not fit in with your plans?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2PyeXRwhCE