[pdonis]

I was shooting for a bit more pizazz than that :-).

Pizazz is fine, but not at the expense of truth.

You'd be just as dead though

Eventually, yes. Not at the horizon.

singularities on what most folks consider "normal" space-time.

There is a singularity at the "center" of the black hole, yes. (I put "center" in scare-quotes because a black hole doesn't have a "center" in the usual sense; but we don't have a better word for it.) But not at the horizon.