On June 21 2011 07:31 Mordiford wrote:
Pretty cool, but I've already planned my method of euthanasia for when I'm not my death bed.

I'm going to go sky-diving...

and get shot in mid-air by a tank, vaporizing me instantly.

Pretty cool, eh?

I have to ask, what if he misses? do you bring a chute or let the ground do the rest?

Shagg

Finland825 Posts

June 20 2011 23:31 GMT

#43

Would be lovely to live near one of those. Go to work and hear ppl die rofl.

Derez

Netherlands6068 Posts

June 20 2011 23:32 GMT

#44

On June 21 2011 08:25 Megaliskuu wrote:

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I don't think it would be messy, just a dead body.

The released bowels will however be great fun to clean up.

OT: I don't have a problem with this rollercoaster. I've always believed people should be allowed to choose their own death, and this option doesn't especially shock me. I mean, I'm ok with drug induced death's, why should this rollercoaster change my opinion and be any worse then that? If this is ment to be provocative art, it has kind of failed hasn't it?

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

June 20 2011 23:32 GMT

#45

I feel like they'd turn this into a game show for criminals who have to serve for life where if the criminal survives, he or she gets released. It's an interesting idea, but who hasn't thought of spectacular ways to go out. In the end, all he did was show it on paper.

Bibdy

United States3481 Posts

June 20 2011 23:36 GMT

#46

On June 21 2011 08:32 Blisse wrote:
I feel like they'd turn this into a game show for criminals who have to serve for life where if the criminal survives, he or she gets released. It's an interesting idea, but who hasn't thought of spectacular ways to go out. In the end, all he did was show it on paper.

Yeah. Death Race 2000 visits 6 Flags.

Kezzer

United States1268 Posts

June 20 2011 23:43 GMT

#47

i love how he said for "overpopulation" as if there were to be too many people the government just starts shuttling in people to the rollercoaster to kill them lol

Tweleve

United States644 Posts

June 20 2011 23:52 GMT

#48

There should be some sort of prize for surviving though

BlackJack

United States10335 Posts

June 20 2011 23:55 GMT

#49

On June 21 2011 08:26 Qeet wrote:

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you can surive 3minutes without breathing because theres still enough oxygen in your blood
but at these g forces the blood is will never reach your brain
the brain can't last a few seconds without oxygen

How does blood reach the brain during cardiac arrest? Does a person under 10g's of force have worse circulation than someone without a beating heart?

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

June 20 2011 23:57 GMT

#50

This seems like an interesting idea but I would want to be 100% sure it actually kills everyone who rides it.

Rembot

United States137 Posts

June 21 2011 00:01 GMT

#51

This seems like it would be a pretty cost effective method of execution once built. I can see it getting worked into plea deals for horrible crimes. "My client pleads guilty to the charges leveled against him on the grounds that he be executed via the kill coaster." You would see more deathrow inmates pleading guilty that way, at least they could go out in style.

Swilvan

113 Posts

June 21 2011 00:12 GMT

#52

On June 21 2011 07:24 TadH wrote:
But any discussion of assisted suicide is distasteful -- and in comparison to tiptoeing around the moral quagmire with euphemisms and empty platitudes, Urbonas's ideas start to sound bracingly honest. After all, if legal assisted suicide is something various governments can manage to stomach, a perverse contraption like "Euthanasia Coaster" becomes just as valid as any other means of getting the job done. Do not go gentle into that good night -- do it to the EXXXTREME!

Am I the only one actually getting a little upset over this (boldfaced) sentence? It's argumentation like this that's killing every form of constructive discussion. Just because "various governments can manage to stomach the idea of legal assisted suicide" does not mean that any way to go about it is valid for exactly the reasons that we do not use aborted fetusses for football, and the same reason we don't kick chickens to death before we eat them, and that even when we are in a war we don't like our soldiers pissing on our enemies graves.

TL;DR: The boldfaced argumentation is a complete and utter fallacy, defeating any point being made in the paragraph and I really dislike this kind of reasoning.

Cirn9

1117 Posts

June 21 2011 00:13 GMT

#53

I'd ride it

danl9rm

United States3111 Posts

June 21 2011 00:14 GMT

#54

On June 21 2011 07:31 TadH wrote:

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I don't think anyone can survive 10g's of force, without some kind of suit pumping oxygen and keeping blood in the extremities.

Not 100% sure though.

10g's can easily be survived. 10g's for 60s... You'd be hard pressed to convince me that's even possible.

jdseemoreglass

United States3773 Posts

June 21 2011 00:18 GMT

#55

On June 21 2011 08:57 travis wrote:
This seems like an interesting idea but I would want to be 100% sure it actually kills everyone who rides it.

Like adding a shotgun at the end of the ride that fires at point blank range into the head?

I would prefer the Cobain method myself. Fast, cheap, effective...

In the meantime I have to placate myself with black humor.

Kinetik_Inferno

United States1431 Posts

June 21 2011 00:18 GMT

#56

I would not ride it. I guarantee you in the ride up the drop tower the suicidees would have second thoughts, and the scariness of knowing you will not come off that thing alive is not worth it. I would rather go out quickly and quietly.

That thing is fucking scary, just the sheer size of the drop and the number of rings is frightening.

Spazer

Canada8029 Posts

June 21 2011 00:18 GMT

#57

On June 21 2011 09:01 Rembot wrote:
This seems like it would be a pretty cost effective method of execution once built. I can see it getting worked into plea deals for horrible crimes. "My client pleads guilty to the charges leveled against him on the grounds that he be executed via the kill coaster." You would see more deathrow inmates pleading guilty that way, at least they could go out in style.

Cost effective? This thing is a half kilometer tall, and has to withstand 10 g's of force in most sections of the track. The construction and maintenance costs alone would be ridiculously prohibitive.

Kinetik_Inferno

United States1431 Posts

June 21 2011 00:22 GMT

#58

I still don't understand how it would be hard to clean though. G-force, afaik, does not cause blood to splatter all over the place, and I don't know how G-force alone would be enough to make someone's guts spill out.

gurrpp

United States437 Posts

June 21 2011 00:22 GMT

#59

Will there be dog seats? If my pet has to go, he's going out in style.

On June 21 2011 08:52 SentinelSC2 wrote:
There should be some sort of prize for surviving though

I'm sure they'd give you a refund at least.

baldgye

United Kingdom1088 Posts

June 21 2011 00:23 GMT

#60

I'm all for euthanasia and if I had some life destorying illness I'd like to go out properly... though I'm not sure this is quite it... its not very... dignified...