Are the odds that high that I\'m going to die?

As I get closer to finalizing the details of my surgery, I\'ve been browsing a lot through this site, getting lots of wonderful information, and seeing all the insightful questions and answers everyone is giving. I looked through the database, but couldn\'t find an answer to this. My question, basically, is that when I was reading through some of the posts, I saw a person who was scared of the surgery and someone replied back that 90% of the people live through the surgery. That is telling me that out of every 10 people who lie on the operating table, only 9 will ever wake up. It\'s telling me that I have a one in 10 chance of dying. Ever since I\'ve started attempting to get this surgery (7 years ago at age 14) I have always had the \"If I die, I die\" attitude, without much fear (that I always knew it would grow as the surgery date approached), however 1 in 10 is bad enough odds to even frighten me to death. It seems that this number is off, and I just wanted confirmation or denial of that # from anyone who would know, I thought the odds would be more like 1 in 300 people die...

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