Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.

Obituary

Highlights (in order of events):

Cook underwent an emergency splenectomy to remove his hemorrhaging spleen. The organ, injured a few days earlier in a pickup football game, began bleeding while Cook and his friends were skiing.

Cook, still a teenager, fell from the go-kart he was driving. [,..]

The ambulance took Cook to University Hospital, where surgeons drained blood from his skull, relieving pressure on his brain and brain stem. Cook went home but was back a few hours later for a second operation after the bleeding resumed.

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.

"No one had any hope at all for his survival as someone with a viable life," Silverman said.

"Then one day, he woke up. That began his incredible comeback."

Graduated.  Became a computer programmer (heckuva recovery).

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

"He broke it two other times after that and broke his ribs in falls and various accidents.

Thomas L. Cook, who died at 54 when he was fatally hit by a car

[Cerberus]

talk about getting dealt shitty hands

[Paul2]

wow.  He sure had lot of really bad injuries and tough times on recoveries.  R.I.P. man.

[Evi]

Wow that sucks. At least he lived that long. o_0

[Kurt Angle]

That story sounds very "cooked" up to me.

[Cerberus]

That story sounds very "cooked" up to me.

yeah, very cooked up

sounds like bad genes + poor common sense