The ride of your life
Thrill seekers will love scaring themselves to death with a new theme park ride that will let users experience cremation.
China’s Window of the World theme park has unveiled the Samadhi 4D Experience of Death ride.
The ride costs around £26 and starts out with visitors entering a fake funeral parlour and being placed into a coffin.
The casket then runs on a conveyor belt through the ‘crematorium’ where it is blasted by hot air (up to 40C) and light to create an ‘authentic experience of burning’. When the ‘burning’ is over, volunteers see a light projected on the ceiling and must crawl until they reach a large, white padded area where they are ‘reborn’.
Its creators, Huange Weiping and Ding Rui, raised the funds to develop the Samadhi 4D Experience of Death on a Chinese crowdfunding site – and collected $65,000.
The duo claim that the ride provides a ‘highly accurate simulation’ of what it feels like to go through the process of cremation – something that almost half of all Chinese people opt for upon death.
Tags: China, cremation, rollercoaster, theme park