The Museum is proud to bring you this edition of designs for “an intellectual and artful departure from the world” by featuring this sketch of 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.”

This is Art is Dead, literally.  Or maybe it’s a new remix to the remix that we should start curating about called “Art is Death” - whaddya think?

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Suicide by Roller Coaster

The 3-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb — nearly a third of a mile long — that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops. The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the 10g force from the spinning loops at 223 mph in that single minute is lethal.

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The creator, Designer/Artist Julijonas Urbonas, tells Discovery he doesn’t see his suicide machine as being about death, but as “an intellectual and artful departure from the world.”

‘Cuz there’s beauty in a breakdown.