A friend of mine was in hospital for a quite serious motorcycle accident (as in "lost half a leg" type serious), and was in a ward with 3 other motorcycle accident patients. The four of them had a lot of fun, whenever any visitors started questioning their intentions about continuing to ride, by pointing out the the _next_ ward had four guys all of whom had fallen off ladders.

Yeah, motorcycling is dangerous - you're around 10 times more likely to be hospitalised or killed per kilometer travelled according to local (Australian) stats - but _life_ is dangerous, and not having fun isn't living...