Not sure if you are asking a question or not. To clarify, my understanding is that there is a greater risk of death when detoxing from alcohol,although it is possible to die from benzo withdrawal it is not as common. My information comes from registered nurses who worked in Rehabs, and years of interaction with a lot of ex-drunks. I did a very light search last night, but did not find anything that gave good comparisons.
However, I have listened to many, many horror stories (and seen them, acted out, in front of me). In all cases, the benzo withdrawals took forever (like months and years), and included seizures, hallucinations, and neverending insomnia.
Knew someone that came off a 17-year Valium addiction.
Took them a year and a half to stop hallucinating, and three years, to get a full night's sleep.
They're still around (40 years later), and doing great.
That's not been my experience (and I've seen this play out for quite a while). I'm interested to know why this is the case.