Tinstaafl
What you say makes a lot of sense, especially if you are in a local area you know (where heading to known low groudn will be more intuitive), rather than enroute somewhere for the first time.
My risk perspective is based on a view that the probability of making a successful forced landing at night is too low to make the risk acceptable personally, but many pilots fly high hours at night without experiencing an engine failure and may think that I am being over cautious.
Choice is a wonderful thing, isn't it and I wouldn't ever try to impose my values on others in this context.
PS with regard to achieving a restart, the original post said "Complete engine failure with no chance of restart ", so my replies were based on being committed to a focred landing. The possibility of a restart would make me feel a whole lot better about things
