Hmmm. I've been doing some digging on the NTSB site, for accidents with aeros. Chutes have indeed saved a few fortunate souls. Heavily outnumbered by those who lost their lives to structural failures - what %ge of them had chutes and didn't bail isn't clear. Overall a glance, it appears the biggest category was foolishness altitude/alcohol/drugs. One was a PA-28 of all things. Quite sad.
I think I'll see what the club has to say. Otherwise I get my own.