People do things all the time that have a high risk of death.
Climbing mountains, Hang gliders, commenting on the size of your wife's butt... Any number of extreme sports carry an elevated risk of buying the farm prematurely.
were I of the proper age, health and unattached, and possessing the proper skill set, I'd be interested as hell.
Pushing the boundaries of human knowledge can carry real risk.
Is it worth it? I don't know, but these would be the only ones that could tell you, if they were able.
Chaffee, Grissom, White, Jarvis, McAuliffe, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee, Smith, Anderson, David Brown, Chawla, Clark, Husband, McCool, Ramon.