Sorry for a non-pilot making a statement here. The father in law of a good friend of mine was an airline pilot with 25+ years of experience. He started originally on Tu-154 then transferred to B-737 for many years. Then he was supposed to be retrained to Airbus due to changes in the fleet of the carrier he worked for.
He expressed many times his disappointment with FBW environment with sidestick without feedback from control surfaces and said that this is not old school flying anymore and the joy of flying is gone.
Making the long story short the pilot ended his life by suicide. It would be very inappropriate to claim that the old guy decided to leave the world just because of necessity to change to new type of a/c with SS but as the family says he was very bitter with the fact. It is known that suicide cases have (like accidents) more contributing factors. Also this is not an attempt to make a flame war regarding Boeing and Airbus proponents.
What I can say as a consultant which is partly involved with safety in various industries - if the operator on any machine or vehicle doesn't like the controls of it then he is more prone to accidents.
Now back to pro pilots
