Is it true that 1 in 250 people will die??

I watched Al Roker on Dateline the other night and he said the statstics show that 1 in 250 people die as a result of the surgery! Is that true? I was really interested in having surgery, and now I am not so sure. Yes I am not living the greatest being overweight, but at least I am living! I have a two year old son, and the thought of me passing away because of a surgery that I am choosing to have really scares me, and he will grow up knowing that it was my own fault!!!

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