He spent life picking himself up

After reading this guy's obituary, I'm feeling like life is pretty good.

'That was when he broke his back for the first time,' his sister recalled.

The first time?

The third major accident ... involved an out-of- town car accident. It left Cook, then a promising Colorado State University student, with severe brain damage and in a semi-vegetative coma for more than five months.

But he fought his way back:

When at last Cook recuperated, he found a job as an assistant computer programmer at Denver's Medicare office.

Well, at least that part figures.

It's amazing this guy managed to live 54 years.

Before being hit and killed by a car, that is.