It is highly likely that even if your relative is very sick, the odds of him/her dying due to general anesthesia are pretty low. The amount of people for whom G

It is highly likely that even if your relative is very sick, the odds of him/her dying due to general anesthesia are pretty low. The amount of people for whom GA itself is "extremely dangerous" is extremely small. Anesthesiologists optimize. Their job is to counsel you on what they think is best, to lower the odds of complication. We often have to put people under who are very, very sick due to surgical constraints. A crushing majority of the time, nothing bad happens. It's all a question of lowering the probability.