If Paranoid is your middle name, chances are, you have chosen to remain a scaredy cat and have for the past years stayed in your comfort zone.

Travelling is not in your dictionary.

However, you met that special someone or have seen that great destination. And now, you are willing to risk it and take the plunge by doing what you thought you'd never do. You have decided to travel.

Don't worry too much. There are lots of "tools" which could help alleviate, at least, some of your fears.

With the advancement in technology, there surely are gadgets designed to assuage your fears. Perhaps that could help.

Or, you could buy and read Air Travel Survival. It's a book regarding air crash survival and illness avoidance for airline passengers. Apparently, it is "the only book in the world that shows a safer emergency brace position for airline passengers".

My wild guess is, the author is as paranoid as you are.