I believe that assumes the goal is to have a circular orbit around the sun. If you want to crash into the sun, do a flyby of Venus and let gravity bend the path

I believe that assumes the goal is to have a circular orbit around the sun. If you want to crash into the sun, do a flyby of Venus and let gravity bend the path into the Sun. In any case, I agree that the chance of launch failure is too high for this to be reasonable.