Euthanasia Coaster by Julijonas Urbonas

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一个假想。一个安乐死的死亡过山车。利用工程所控制人生命的起伏。从兴奋，到快感，再到极度快感丧失意识，大脑缺氧，最终死亡。这些数据得益于先进的航空航天与机械与材料的跨学科研究。重力，是死亡之旅的要素，重力将突破人体的极限。

现在这只是一个雕塑。不会有24个人坐上去，回来之后，他们死掉。

EUTHANASIA COASTER

“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. 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. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross- disciplinary research in aeronautics/space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once sad that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”

Design, engineering: Julijonas Urbonas
Health issues: Dr. Michael Gresty, Spatial Disorientation Lab, Imperial College, London
Model making: Paulius Vitkauskas
Photography: Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius

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