is it a good idea to handle deadlock retry from stored procedure catch block

From what i undertand it is impossible to completely prevent a transaction from deadlocking.

I would like to have transaction that neverfail from the perpective of application code. So i have seen this pattern in use for Microsoft SQL and I wonder if this is a good idea?

    DECLARE @retry  tinyint
    SET @retry  = 5
    WHILE @retry >0
    BEGIN
      BEGIN TRANSACTION
      BEGIN TRY
        // do transaction her
        COMMIT
        BREAK
      END TRY
      BEGIN CATCH
        ROLLBACK

        if (ERROR_NUMBER() = 1205 OR ERROR_NUMBER() = 1222)
        BEGIN
          SET @retry = @retry - 1
          IF @retry = 0
             RAISEERROR('Could not complete transaction',16,1);
          WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:00.05' -- Wait for 50 ms
          CONTINUE
        END
        ELSE
        BEGIN
          RAISEERROR('Non-deadlock condition encountered',16,1);
          BREAK;
        END
      END CATCH;
    END