Dying for a Tan - Australia

May 2005
For many, sizzling in the midday sun is one of the delights of summer. But as teenagers continue to ignore the sun safety message, more and more young people are developing skin cancer.

"It's a really hard thing to be told you're going to die," confides Steven Nielson. He was 20 when he was first diagnosed with skin cancer. Now, the cancer has spread to his spine and he's nearing the end of this life. Benjamin Foley was 16 when he was first diagnosed and Renee Marchment 24. "We see so many people who are totally unaware of the risks they're taking by sunbathing," states Prof John Thompson. Many refuse to wear a hat or sunscreen. As Ben states: "I thought I was invincible from the sun. I thought skin cancer only happened to older people. I was wrong."

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[alyssaiscool1]

This video is very powerful and all you ignorant people can do is argue about YOUR skin color. Go somewhere else and fight and leave us cancer survivors alone!!!

[MrLilort]

so happy to be black!!!! :D

[PinHeadzBlackson]

@ureallysuckglobes You can train a White girl to worship the black man, though

[ureallysuckglobes]

@mikedav9O I agree with you except for that white woman part. Do NOT let them off the hook, they're as bad as their male counterparts. Just even more passive aggressive with their bullshit.

[ureallysuckglobes]

@jerkbeast81 "except for calling people son...I would punch you in the face for that"

You wouldn't do shit, everyone knows how bitchmade white boys irl. You keep internet thuggin' though. ;)

[ureallysuckglobes]

@jerkbeast81 Wasted? Typical honky mentality. They lived sustainably on THEIR land for tens of thousands of years. You albino pieces of shit have been there 200 years and the way it's going, won't be able to sustain your current society another 100. Maybe not even 50. So tell me, who's wasting the land again?? You people are a plague everywhere you go.

[ureallysuckglobes]

@Godsblack Preach!

[ureallysuckglobes]

@heckler171 +1

[heckler171]

@JPetrucci744 your own scholars wrote of how civilized and advanced africa was in many books. in fact the united nations wrote a book in 1959 "africa's lost past the startling rediscovery of a continent" while you guys still though the world was flat and u wud fall off. take time to read it its written by the UN

[heckler171]

im sorry i wont cry because the europeans killed and detoryed the original ppl there. with the sun getting hotter...they should go home to europe

[gnossticc]

I'm naturally copper-skinned. We here in latin-america take it for granted, but hey, why aren't you happy they way you are, whites? Expose yourselves to the sun but not in excessive amounts.

[gnossticc]

Why do these gorgeous girls need to expose themselves to skin aging and the worst CANCER? C'mon, white girls! You are beautiful just the way you are!