One half of the Cirrus accidents I can think of, involved fatalities, and the 'chute could not have helped even were it to have been deployed. Don't worry about having to hit the silk....
If you fly a Cirrus aircraft, or any other aircraft equipped with a ballistic parachute, then worry -- at least,
think carefully before you fly. Think about the habits that you have formed in primary flight training that might get in the way of using the parachute recovery. It's the primacy effect -- under stress we revert back to your strongest habits.
In the Cirrus accident history, the parachute would have helped avoid 105 fatalities. By my estimate, in about 60% of the fatal accidents, the accident pilot encountered a scenario eerily similar to a successful parachute deployment,
but didn't pull -- high altitude loss of control, icing, disorientation, loss of engine power, etc.
So, despite the need to train and demonstrate emergency procedures, the presence of a ballistic parachute needs to be considered. If you fly as if you didn't have one, then you may die as if you didn't have one.
Cheers
Rick