I don't see a problem with allowing people to risk their lives in doing what they wish to do. You could spend your whole life in bed 24 hours a day but, as the man said: You're still gonna die.

Your safety net, Bill D, is very visual. I gather it would be quite narrow but VERY long?

I once posed this question to two pilots I know: Would it be possible to install an appropriate number of parachutes on airliners that if needed would bring planes relatively gently back to earth?

They agreed that the technology is entirely possible, but that the cost of an air ticket would soar and no one would go for that.

I would.