Euthanasia Coaster (2010)

Here's a recreation of the Euthanasia Coaster in Planet Coaster if you want a first-person experience on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/w_11Ut6unBQ

The qualitative description here is pretty interesting, but so is the quantitative one here[1]. 1,600 ft tall, 220 mph top speed, inflicting 10 Gs for roughly 60 seconds, which induces cerebral hypoxia in the brain, causing death.

Seems like the drop is entirely unnecessary and mainly gamifies it, since the user has to press the button. You could easily just have an Incredicoaster-style magnetic propulsion system that takes you to 220 mph, producing the same effect without the distress. Other than the drop, losing consciousness in this way is relatively pleasant as a way to go (I know because it has happened to me).

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/human-plus-science-gallery/

Related:

The Euthanasia Coaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979326 - March 2023 (3 comments)

Euthanasia Coaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27970824 - July 2021 (12 comments)

Euthanasia Coaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7715102 - May 2014 (106 comments)

I remember seeing a small model of this in the Singapore Museum of Art. Looked scary as heck, though still fascinating in a morbid kind of way.

Euthanasia.ttf should be the name of the font on that page. Why is it randomly rotating the occasional character by a few degrees?

This idea has been around for a while. Seems like a terrifying way to die.

So basically the opposite of Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.