Perhaps it says something about the time in which we live that people are coming up with increasingly bizarre ways to euthanise the population. Such as this boat ride:
Yep, someone has created a boat trip that people can only ride once.
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SM Coasters regularly shares a mix of interesting and now pretty sinister designs for rollercoasters and rides, and its most recent offering gives passengers the opportunity to end it all.
A short clip of the contraption was posted to its TikTok page with the caption: "Boat ride euthanasia – totally humane way to go."
In it, a carriage can be seen sitting at the top of a huge structure, it then nudges over the edge and falls a long, long way down to a pool at the bottom.
Upon landing, the carriage bounces up into the air before landing back in the water.
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Since it was posted, the video has been viewed more than 2.7 million times, with thousands of people sharing their thoughts in the comments.
One user joked: "Knowing my luck the boat won't land the right way up and I'd survive."
Another wrote: "Yep, that would do it."
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Amazingly, this isn't the first euthanasia ride that someone has thought up over the years.
Last year, a rollercoaster designed by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas was shared to TikTok, and it blew people's minds.
Having grown up in a Soviet amusement park, Urbonas became jaded from seeing the same 'macho' thrill rides over and over again.
So he looked for something new and came up with a 'hypnotic death machine' that you could only experience once.
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He described it as been 'engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being'.
The principle of the Euthanasia Coaster is that it causes an 'oxygen deficiency in the brain' owing to its speed and many loops.
Discussing his design, Urbonas said: "Today, the roller coaster is at a stall of the innovation, as it has already reached the peak of bodily stimulation intensity.
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"In the Euthanasia Coaster I wanted to overcome it, even dramatise, to celebrate this historical moment of the ride and the rider's body."
He went on: "At first, what was designed was just the fatal falling trajectory with no purpose but one: to kill the rider pleasurably and elegantly.
"It was a sort of a designed thought experiment of what the ultimate roller coaster would be like and what possible usages it would be open to."
Dominic Smithers