https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7kbq/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game
“The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear. The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you,”
was just thinking about the suicide helmet i saw someone make on the old internet.
cw: graphic description
spoiler
it was a hardhat (or maybe fake hardhat) with like a dozen shotgun shells glued to the outside, facing towards the wearer, and he also set up a trigger system so they'd all go off at once. iirc, the user was terrified of failing in their suicide attempt so they wanted to guarantee they were good and dead. afaik mission accomplished
just want to put an extra NSFL on this i saw the pic on 4chan over a decade ago and still think about it from time to time