Euthanasia city





Euthanasia city is part of the speculative scenario of AI supported Data-driven Direct Democracy.

The town infrastructure is constructed for committing assisted suicide where people and families can participate in the preparation and execution of a suicide.Seeking to end your life doesn't require any justification from the participant. Any reason is valid from the stress of a broken relationship to a serious and incurable disease.By law there is no age limit to minors who can seek suicide.Town uses the protocol of assuring a wide range of choices of the death ritual. Many artists and architects have created beautiful experiences to end your life. One example is Euthanasia Coaster by artist Julijonas Urbonas. Euthanasia Coaster is a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. The goal of roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria”. The Euthanasia Coaster kills its passengers through prolonged cerebral hypoxia, or in other words insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain. This means that excess glutamate triggers the reward system to produce euphoric feelings. What’s not to like?The village provides selection of cinema's most spectacular and terrible deaths. Crematorium is being used to generate electricity. Crematorium has installed turbines in its burners that converts waste heat into electricity. The Euthanasia town is a self sustaining, economy supported by exports of the electricity to local companies. And also exports of the fertiliser to local farms. Here your loved ones’ can be turned into fertiliser for the soil. The town also provides accommodation for the family members.Why people felt a need to develop a euthanasia city?The answer lies in the question: People have an explicit right to die and why not make the event of dying as positive as possible?