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by perl4ever 2258 days ago
A quick Google suggests that if your risk is representative, a 0.2% additional risk of death equates to going skydiving around 3-400 times in a year.

Or, based on overall fatalities from motorcycles per mile, it would equate to about 8,000 miles per year.

Or, based on light aircraft fatalities per hour, it would be around 200 flight hours in a year.

Of course, you could argue that the casualties from both activities are skewed upwards by people who do stupid things early and don't live long enough to engage in the activity a lot.

Anyway, I'm not particularly agreeing or disagreeing. The risks above are considered reasonable by a lot of people and unreasonable by others.