I know someone who worked for honeywell and investigated failures. He has the same bad opinion of turbines because he has seen everything that can go wrong with them. The point is anything can break and chances are it's not even going to be the engine, what about the 100's of other little things that can go wrong and be worse than a power failure.
I think you need to either forget about flying or get over your fear and go jump in an R44 and have fun.