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.

I've informedly chosen 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