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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.

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Part of the HUMAN+ exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, supported by Wellcome Trust, Trinity School of Medicine and the Trinity Long Room Hub.

sciencegallery.com/humanplus/euthanasia-coaster

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  • Paige Berkovich 8 months ago
    take me for a ride.
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  • Ricard Jorg 8 months ago
    The several minutes it takes to climb the 500meters are probably the most nervous and unbearable thing ever.. And they're almost the last thing you'll experience.
    I'd prefer just an injection or something more calm.
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  • Amber Plaster 7 months ago
    This is the scariest, most horrible thing I've ever seen. If your life becomes too long?! Excuse me? Humans are not insects needing to be exterminated. It's horrible that the blueprints for a massive killing machine even exists.
  • Martin Rajnai 4 months ago
    I think he did not express himself well there, and obviously you have no idea about the current dilemma of euthanasia in the world.
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  • xenixas 7 months ago
    tai tipo tokia karusele naudosis tik tie kuriems atsibodo gyvent? :D
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  • I am a Fractal 6 months ago
    Well, I guess if we cure aging and people get to live to be 100,000 years old, they might get tired of it all... of course we'll probably all be in software by then anyway. So maybe we'd send a copy of ourselves off to take a ride, just to experience it.
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  • Christopher Heward 5 months ago
    "To control population". What?!?! Will we round up people from prisons and tell them they're going on a roller coaster? The science of what the G force does to you is interesting. The fact someone can seriously suggest it as a device for killing people is quite disturbing.
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  • uw films 5 months ago
    Can you make another rollercoaster that MAY cause death, I'd que up for that
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  • Michael Loomis 4 months ago
    When there are so many environmental problems in the world due to human overpopulation, it is truly irresponsible to talk about "population control" in the context of murdering people. Admittedly, if Urbanos were an anti-abortion fanatic, his comment would make sense. But I suspect his statement is mere ignorance on his behalf. Such ignorance on the substance of his art makes his art less interesting.
  • Julijonas Urbonas 4 months ago
    Michael, please note that this macabre insight was made in and for the context of the exhibition "Human+" which speculated upon the future of humans. In that case the coaster is a sci-fi black humour. Originally this dystopian insight was inspired by a few sci-fi stories such as Kurt Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House" where euthanasia is a citizen's patriotic duty, and the movies like "Soylent Green," "Children of Men." Thus the coaster could be also seen as a tangible design interpretation or equivalent to the literary versions of the euthanasia machines found in these stories.
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  • Nik Skavinsky plus 4 months ago
    Read about this in Esquire Russia. Interesting project, but I'm sure it will stay a project, because it's way too expensive to build such a machine.
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  • Nika Micechova 1 month ago
    quite sick
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  • Oriol Segarra 1 month ago
    sorry but this guy is not an engineer so this is just a simple concept, I think with this structural design this would be imposible to construct.

    In his website he refers himself as engineer, and he's not.
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