French pensioner to free fall from 40000m

Helium balloon, special suit, personal dream and about 20 million dollars, not to mention balls of steel, this is just so cool!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24821986/
It is expected to take Fournier 15 minutes just to come down, screaming through thin air at 932 mph an hour (1,500 kilometers per hour) — 1.7 times the speed of sound — smashing through the sound barrier, shock waves buffeting his body, before finally deploying his chute about 6,000 meters (3.75 miles) above the prairie wheat fields.
 
Very... elaborate... form of suicide, but I gotta say, on a list of things to do before I die, this would definatly be the last thing to do on that list.
 
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