ANTI-SOLARIUM campaigner Clare Oliver, 26, has lost her fight against cancer. She died today surrounded by family and close friends.
Clare captured the hearts of a nation and Australia's top policy makers with her courageous campaign against solariums, which she blamed for contributing to her cancer. Her touching story prompted the Victorian government to last month announce new laws to tighten control of the state's solarium industry.
I saw her on a documentary show on TV a few weeks ago. She was telling the story of how she thought she caught the skin cancer and warning people to think twice before they want to get a tan with solarium. She was saying how she just graduated from University with great expectation to a great future ahead of her and then the worst nightmare.
A few years ago, a lovely young lady of early twenties, like many of the girls of her age, wanted to look more beautiful than she already was, went to visit some solarium shops some twenty or so times to get a nice tan and end up paying the ultimate price - her life.
Unlike many others, she did not choose to feel sorry for herself and curse the unfairness of the world and her life, instead, she gathered up her not much left energy in her to volunteer to become a anti-solarium campaigner to help more people to understand how dangerous it could be to use solarium to get a tan, to look nice.
After 3 years of fighting, the cancer finally took her away, the only child of her mother. But her courage and her campaign will keep on helping many people, especially the younger generation, to understand the risk of solarium and hopefully not too late to save their lives.
A brave young lady. Yet another beautiful bright star in the night sky.
Clare captured the hearts of a nation and Australia's top policy makers with her courageous campaign against solariums, which she blamed for contributing to her cancer. Her touching story prompted the Victorian government to last month announce new laws to tighten control of the state's solarium industry.
I saw her on a documentary show on TV a few weeks ago. She was telling the story of how she thought she caught the skin cancer and warning people to think twice before they want to get a tan with solarium. She was saying how she just graduated from University with great expectation to a great future ahead of her and then the worst nightmare.
A few years ago, a lovely young lady of early twenties, like many of the girls of her age, wanted to look more beautiful than she already was, went to visit some solarium shops some twenty or so times to get a nice tan and end up paying the ultimate price - her life.
Unlike many others, she did not choose to feel sorry for herself and curse the unfairness of the world and her life, instead, she gathered up her not much left energy in her to volunteer to become a anti-solarium campaigner to help more people to understand how dangerous it could be to use solarium to get a tan, to look nice.
After 3 years of fighting, the cancer finally took her away, the only child of her mother. But her courage and her campaign will keep on helping many people, especially the younger generation, to understand the risk of solarium and hopefully not too late to save their lives.
A brave young lady. Yet another beautiful bright star in the night sky.
1 comment:
It's so sad to see such a beautiful life disappeared. I just don't get it how come these smart girls had no this sort of knowledge at all and no one told them how dangerous it was before.But I'm sure it would never happen in China cause all the chinese girls hate a tan very much and never let their skin under the strong sunlight.
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