A photograph of an attraction, allegedly built for people who want to die of life, is widespread on the Internet. We checked whether such slides really exist.

The picture, which allegedly depicts the “death attraction”, is placed, in particular, in the Telegram channel "Film" Since 190,000 subscribers. The authors report that "these American slides were designed specifically to painlessly and easily die." The mechanism of action of an unusual attraction is as follows: the trolley rises to a height of about 500 m, then sharply descends, passing somewhat decreasing the size of the loops. As a result, the body experiences overloads incompatible with life, a person loses consciousness, and his brain ceases to function due to a lack of oxygen.

In 2011, at the exhibition in Dublin there was represented EUTHANASIA Corner project. Its author, Lithuanian designer and engineer Julionas Urbonas then received a PhD degree at the Royal Art College in London and worked over the study of "gravitational aesthetics". According to the project, the height of the attraction was supposed to be 500 m, the length was 7.5 km, and as a result of a trip along it, a person died from cerebral hypoxia and a lack of oxygen in the brain. For the exhibition, Urbonas made a model of these unusual American slides on a scale of 1: 500.

If you compare the model presented by Urbonas and the distributed photo, then it is easy to notice their difference. Firstly, in this photo there is no half-kilometer “race”, without which the idea proposed by the engineer does not work. Secondly, even if this part of the attraction remained behind the scenes, the loops, according to the project, should significantly decrease in diameter, and in the photo they are approximately the same (although it does not seem like that due to the angle). Moreover, Urbonas He emphasizesthat his project is only a hypothetical American hill and he was not going to build it.

A photograph that some positions as the embodiment of the Urbonas project is a frame from a short film H Positive. Inspired by the idea of the Lithuanian designer, director Glenn Paton in 2015 shot a picture of a rich man who found out that he was dying and decided to implement the Urbonas project for subsequent euthanasia. Personnel with slides (including those distributed in social networks) were shot in the entertainment park in Madrid. How Explained Paton, using computer effects to the selected Superman attraction, added several loops, and the slide itself was “repainted” in dark tones.