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April 20, 2011 02:34 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KdIl-2ygb48/euthanasia-coaster-a.html
Euthanasia coaster: assisted suicide by thrills
Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, designed this "Euthanasia Coaster" that will kill its riders with a series of brain-scrambling loops: "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." Euthanasia Coaster (via DVICE)...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KdIl-2ygb48/euthanasia-coaster-a.html
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