GJP
Good post.
coppetta:
You are quite right, your chances of being involved in an evacuation by slides is extremely small, and even so there's sometimes not a big drop involved (e.g. when the BA 777 crash landed at Heathrow a few years back it's undercarriage collapsed. The slides were so flat I believe few of the passengers slid anywhere, many had to walk along the slides)
I would be forced to get out?
Well for certain you mustn't risk any other passenger's chance of escaping by, say, freezing in the door with other people behind you...I suspect if you did that you
would end up going down the slide regardless of your wishes and/or regardless of anything you've told the crew...
With that in mind could I suggest if you are insistent on not using the slides your best option would be to make sure you're in a window seat and maybe discuss your concerns/tactics with the cabin crew. To fair to them in the heat of an emergency they probably aren't going to remember every single passengeror every conversation. They are usually told to try and save life but not risk their own in doing so, so ultimately if you steadfastly refuse to move from your seat.....