Short Story about the 'Euthanasia Coaster'?
Hi guys,
My boyfriend showed me the Wikipedia article about the Euthanasia Coaster, a concept for a roller coaster designed to kill its riders. I was like "Yeah, I read a short story about something like that," but the one I remember doesn't sound like the plot of 'Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die,' the story mentioned on the Wikipedia page for the coaster. In the one I remember, I'm pretty sure the rollercoaster was on an island that people with terminal diseases would book luxury vacations on before riding the coaster. I think it was a brother and sister or similar who were doing it together because they had both inherited some genetic defect that would eventually kill them. The protagonist of the story is the brother, I think, and he keeps noticing how everyone working on the island has strangely bright eyes. At the end of the story he rides the rollercoaster but survives, and learns that everyone working on the island also survived. The strange tint to their eyes is apparently a result of taking the ride. It's really going to bother me if I can't remember who wrote this story or what it was called, lol. The only authors I can remember reading short story compilations from recently are Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman, and I didn't get any results by Googling their names along with keywords like "rollercoaster" "eye color" "suicide" etc. I also tried just googling the key words about the plot on their own without an author name, but didn't turn up anything either. Anyone have any suggestions?
My boyfriend showed me the Wikipedia article about the Euthanasia Coaster, a concept for a roller coaster designed to kill its riders. I was like "Yeah, I read a short story about something like that," but the one I remember doesn't sound like the plot of 'Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die,' the story mentioned on the Wikipedia page for the coaster. In the one I remember, I'm pretty sure the rollercoaster was on an island that people with terminal diseases would book luxury vacations on before riding the coaster. I think it was a brother and sister or similar who were doing it together because they had both inherited some genetic defect that would eventually kill them. The protagonist of the story is the brother, I think, and he keeps noticing how everyone working on the island has strangely bright eyes. At the end of the story he rides the rollercoaster but survives, and learns that everyone working on the island also survived. The strange tint to their eyes is apparently a result of taking the ride. It's really going to bother me if I can't remember who wrote this story or what it was called, lol. The only authors I can remember reading short story compilations from recently are Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman, and I didn't get any results by Googling their names along with keywords like "rollercoaster" "eye color" "suicide" etc. I also tried just googling the key words about the plot on their own without an author name, but didn't turn up anything either. Anyone have any suggestions?