I often wonder why regular GA pilots don't wear a parachute while glider pilots do... It can't be just the fact that gliders fly close together in a thermal.
It seems like a good emergency safety measure in case of very critical failure. No simple engine failure but control cable breaking, wing detachment, prop blade flying loose and vibration causes the whole firewall forward to break away, etc. Bad maintenance, bad design, bad luck (big bird strike) or whatever can cause such critical failure making controlled landing impossible. Chutes get more and more common in the LSA world for the whole plane. Why not wear them as pilots of regular GA?