At the wild frontier of Modern Art, the Euthanasia Coaster was first shown as part of the HUMAN+ display at the Science Gallery in Dublin in 2012. The concept was conceived in 2010 and made into a scale model by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas. It aims to provide a compassionate and fun way to conduct euthanasia and executions as the ride is unsurvivable. According to Urbonas the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria“.

A steep track takes the “user” to 500 m (1,600 ft) up then slides back down to 500 m (1,600 ft) at 360 kph (220 mph; 100 m/s) then speeds into seven (slightly clothoid) loops.

According to the artist: “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.”

Awarded the Public Prize of New Technological Art of Update 2013, Ghent, Belgium.

Here’s an animation video of what it would look like.

I recommend you check out this beauty and others of Urbonas’ famed inventions at Julijona Surbonas, things like Cumspin (2015), an “orgasm enhancing funfair machine“.

Or this Escalator Slide:

By Justin Pickard – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60309308