Creepy Rollercoaster Will Kill You with Euphoria

[Tharwen]

Wouldn't it be awful to be an attendant on the platform as the cars come back into the station...

Imagine working there for a few months. For one thing, it would be empty most of the time, and you might be the last person that your customers ever speak to (although if I was doing it, I'd take a phone up there and talk to someone I knew).

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

well thats just weird... kinda like... would be epic if the fall didnt kill you.

 

[Quaxar]

Tickets for that ride could be a great gift for your enemies!
"Euthanasia Machine? Yeah, that's just the name of this really badass rollercoaster in Lithuania. Now go have fun."

Julijonas Urbonas, a Lithuanian PHD candidate PhD candidate

I'm sorry but this just this just seems wrong.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I wouldn't mind going away like that. And it would be even more awesome if I actually survived.

Imagine working there for a few months. For one thing, it would be empty most of the time, and you might be the last person that your customers ever speak to (although if I was doing it, I'd take a phone up there and talk to someone I knew).

Walking there would make me feel like I'm the Grim Reaper.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Wow. Can you imagine a more beautiful way to take your own life? Euphoric, gazing out at all of creation, visible as far as your eyes can see, never worrying about whether it will hurt, because you'll have no idea it's happening, just a blissful, serene rush into oblivion. Seeing the world rush by you, as you rushed through it, coming to a quite peaceful end. Imagine happily screaming, waving your arms in the air, coming to terms with both your own mortality and the infinite beauty of things around you...and letting that be your last conscious thought. If there was ever a way to go, that would be it.

 

[dillirgaf]

so to solve overpopulation, just build a machine to have people kill themselves. makes since in a homicidal kind of way.

 

[Kiwilove]

The Joker has already ordered three.

 

[zehydra]

To be honest, I find this idea a bit disturbing.

 

[Aureliano]

So...murdercoaster. No matter how humane this idea may or may not be, that guy has to realize on some level that he has just designed a device with the sole goal of killing people. And he seems jazzed about it.

Two big problems with it, if we imagine for a moment that this atrocity was constructed:
1) It's really not clear from the article that there's a 'holy crap I don't want to die!' button. Or that it does anything other than take you over the edge anyway.

2) Frat guys who think taking the murdercoaster and surviving would be awesome. Granted it's one effective way to thin out the ranks of the thrill-hungry and stupid, but education can do that too.

 

[chuckman1]

Wow. Can you imagine a more beautiful way to take your own life? Euphoric, gazing out at all of creation, visible as far as your eyes can see, never worrying about whether it will hurt, because you'll have no idea it's happening, just a blissful, serene rush into oblivion. Seeing the world rush by you, as you rushed through it, coming to a quite peaceful end. Imagine happily screaming, waving your arms in the air, coming to terms with both your own mortality and the infinite beauty of things around you...and letting that be your last conscious thought. If there was ever a way to go, that would be it.

My thoughts exactly.
If this was real and I was suicidal I'd go out this way.

 

[Alphakirby]

Wow. Can you imagine a more beautiful way to take your own life? Euphoric, gazing out at all of creation, visible as far as your eyes can see, never worrying about whether it will hurt, because you'll have no idea it's happening, just a blissful, serene rush into oblivion. Seeing the world rush by you, as you rushed through it, coming to a quite peaceful end. Imagine happily screaming, waving your arms in the air, coming to terms with both your own mortality and the infinite beauty of things around you...and letting that be your last conscious thought. If there was ever a way to go, that would be it.

The climb was also a clever idea,a chance for that person to think things over before making his final decision at the push of a button. A 2 minute rise to consider if suicide is a good idea or not before pushing the button that would end your life.

 

[CthulhuMessiah]

If I ever get a terminal illness, I'll ride that coaster to the great beyond.

 

[General BrEeZy]

B*tch please...THESE are rides! (not all are rollercoasters, but they're all theme parks)

http://www.cracked.com/article_19302_the-6-most-terrifying-theme-park-rides-ever-built.html

have fun with that on-topic article!

 

[MarsProbe]

I'm confused, how do they get those that change their mind and don't push the button back down without killing them?

So this is the same concept medically as the Hypoxia chamber they were testing at one point?

I have to say the coaster sounds preferable to the chamber or the operating table though, I feel sorry for the person who has the job of cleaning out the coaster cart of bodies and fluids.

They jump. They were planning to rely on gravity ending their life, but now that they've changed their mind at the last minute, they're going to have to hope they can rely on it to save their life as well. 'Chutes not supplied.

 

[Aprilgold]

So...murdercoaster. No matter how humane this idea may or may not be, that guy has to realize on some level that he has just designed a device with the sole goal of killing people. And he seems jazzed about it.

Two big problems with it, if we imagine for a moment that this atrocity was constructed:
1) It's really not clear from the article that there's a 'holy crap I don't want to die!' button. Or that it does anything other than take you over the edge anyway.

2) Frat guys who think taking the murdercoaster and surviving would be awesome. Granted it's one effective way to thin out the ranks of the thrill-hungry and stupid, but education can do that too.

Well, make suicide fun, I suppose. I think that this might be a good thing, if anything else, I just hope those Emo kids aren't the first ones on, give the real members of suicide a chance, like the ones that have cancer or something, let their last days be fun.

 

[aeroblaster]

Wow, it simulates your descent into hell.
Suicidal idiots...