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The last ride: Euthanasia Coaster is a "hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of conscious ness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-​​disciplinary research in aeronautics/​space medicine, mechanical engineering, material tech­nologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful." Via: Design You Trust

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The monument in the Ukraine devoted to all the bikers died in crashes all over the world since the motorbike was invented. Via: English Russia (thanks Ray!)

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An early grim reminder for wartime riders to keep their heads while riding. Via:

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"Built in Auckland, New Zealand by an automotive engineer Mike Price, the bike can carry up to 440 lbs in an underbelly cradle. Push a button and the rig slides out to let the pallbearers do their thing. A complex system of hydraulics helps stabilize everything, and two riders are needed to get the deceased from place to place."

Via: hadnews

Spotted at the Norfolk Rural Life Museum at Gressenhall, this Norton hearse "consists of a sidecar chassis with wooden platform on which the coffin is laid. It was the brainchild of a local worthy to provide a speedy and cheap method of transporting the bodies of departed inmates for interment to the parishes of their origin.

This was too much even for the guardians of the day, and the vehicle was never used for the purpose for which it was intended. The same cannot be said, however, for the coffin, which was of the re-usable variety with a hinged side from which the pauper's body could be slid into its final resting place...."

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Via: A Journey Round My Skull

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Just around the block one last time before I go. via: Share CG

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The worlds smallest motorcycle sidecar hearse. Via: Motorcycle Funerals.com