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thank you guys. please, don't fight with death statistics, I read a very interesting article written by an italian researcher (if you can/want read it in italian I can link it here) and the ultimate sentence is: is not possible to compare skydiving with driving cars. So I will not think about this no more. Italy, 2017: 3945 people died suicide = 6,5 people every 100.000 Should I compare suicide with driving car or hours spent in situations that can end with a suicide with miles drove? Of course not. As I said, I know that life is risky by itself, skydiving IS adding risks but also adding rewards, joy, and so on. I don't know when I will die and I can't do nothing to know how much time I have to live, so I prefer 1 minute of pure joy and good feelings that 1 year of "normal" life without. I don't know why, but I can't think the same things about injuries, and that's the matter that I need to work on. It's possible to not get hurt skydiving (being careful, checking gear, etc etc etc) or it's just "hope to not" and "have luck"? An injury can happen like can happen falling down stairs or there are more chances? This is my big question mark. thank you again!

thank you all for the answers. I know that "fatality risk" is everywhere around us, life is risky. Everybody will die, can't know when/where/why. Life is now and I am very sure that I'd prefer to die tomorrow with great memories than at 90years old with great regrets. No doubt. I'm now fighting with my perception... especially about injuries. I hate physical pain, I never broke a bone in my life (lucky me..!) and I think I'm more careful than most of people (for example... when I see passenger in a car with the feet on dash I think "if the driver claps on the brake he/she'll get hurt" - and of course I never put my feet on dash..!) I know for sure that it is just an illusion of control, the risk will never be neither close to zero (and for sure it will be always more than 2%) but it is enough for me and for most of us to feel safe. Well, I just need to obtain the same perception with parachutism. That's a little bit hard because, as I wrote, reading jumpers Facebook profiles I found almost ever an x-ray shot showing some screws (to be honest, there is always a phrase like "oh no, I can't jump for months!" and never "I'm really in pain, fuck skydiving, I never do it again" - that means that is always worth) I know that if I ask to my friends I will discover that a lot of them have had accidents, injuries, deaseases, bad times. It's just a mental concern. Your answers are very helpful for this. Thank you!

Hi all! Another newbie from Italy (so sorry for my bad english). I was at a DZ two months ago, until that day I just knew NOTHING about skydiving: never saw a video, never been interested in it, never knew the existence of tandem jumps. I was there (for other reasons), I saw jumpers landing with a big beautiful smile in their face, so I think: let's try! I jumped tandem and it was the best thing I ever did in my entire life (35 y/o). Since then I am literally obsessed: I go to sleep thinking of skydiving and I wake up thinking of skydiving. Of course I want to do AFF, but I am like "split" in two parts: a part of me thinking "go on, don't let this become a regret" and the other part of me thinking "are you really sure that you can accept the risks?" I am watching all the watchable and reading all the readable and I know that's a mistake. The only thing I should do is to go to the DZ and talk with instructors and maybe I'll do, but I'd like to hear opinions/experiences about this 3 questions: 1) Injuries. It seems that almost everybody have a broken bone or worst. But it seems that almost all broken bones depends by swooping too hard, downsizing when it's not the time and other competitive-related things. My question is: injuries CAN happen like it can happen everyday just staying at home, or sooner or later it WILL happen despite of how "conservative" and careful you are? 2) "You can do all the right things and still die" - ok; but how much times that happened? And: are you really sure that it's a correct way to think? I don't want to think that "I can do all the things right and still die", I want to think that "I am smart, I am well trained, I can do EPs and I will do anything it's possible to bring myself to the ground". Am I wrong? 3) How do you manage in your mind the fact that you are doing something risky just for your fun? How is it different for you from, for example, using drugs, or driving fast? Thank you in advance. I know that there aren't right answers to this questions, I just want to hear from you. Thanks thanks thanks!