Michael wrote:

It's not right or wrong. It's your choice to accept an emergency
parachute that has a high probability of putting you in the hospital if
you use it. I simply feel it should be an informed choice.

My informedly cose between a chute which is fool proof albeit I might
break a leg on landing and one which is much better but which I might
not be able to handle. The choice seems obvious for a pilot who has no
parachute training at all and most probably will never have. (And who
doesn't know in which state his mind will be if -shudder- he really
needs that thing one day.)

Stefan