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Honestly, I just find it hard to care about skin cancer all that much. I gotta die from something at some point, and I feel like covering my skin in nasty oils

Honestly, I just find it hard to care about skin cancer all that much. I gotta die from something at some point, and I feel like covering my skin in nasty oils and stuff on every nice summer day is too much a price for me just to die from "not skin cancer". Because now every nice day is a little bit less nice. Ofc I'm a bit lucky because I can at least tan somewhat, so if I just taper up my sun exposure in the spring I don't really get burned.

codr7 3y ago
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- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Fact: There was no such thing as skin cancer before we started rubbing toxic crap like aluminum into our skin to "avoid it". Recognizable descriptions of malignant melanoma date back to at least Hippocrates.
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- goodpoint 3y ago
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dale_glass 3y ago
There are better and worse ways of dying though. Getting cancer while you're still young enough to have fun and enjoy life and spending a lot of time in pain and going from one doctor to another isn't really how I want to go.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
  You say that as if there's a choice when really there isn't. It's fundamentally out of my control what kills me. Hell, the cancer could be growing already, or the clot or aneurism. And the amount of crap you get exposed to just drinking the water and breathing the air these days, not to mention the food you eat. You could try to minimise carcinogens but in the end it's basically a lost battle unless you completely isolate yourself from society and the outside world. Also, if I do get terminal cancer I'm not doing those cycles of pointless chemo and radiation. I'll simply live on until the cancer becomes too unbearable, at which point I'll accept my fate and die.
goodpoint 3y ago
Stop spreading misinformation. This is HN not reddit.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
  What misinformation exactly? That everyone will die one day, and that they can't choose how no matter how hard they try?

codr7 3y ago

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dragonwriter 3y ago
> Fact: There was no such thing as skin cancer before we started rubbing toxic crap like aluminum into our skin to "avoid it". Recognizable descriptions of malignant melanoma date back to at least Hippocrates.
- codr7 3y ago
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goodpoint 3y ago
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dale_glass 3y ago

There are better and worse ways of dying though. Getting cancer while you're still young enough to have fun and enjoy life and spending a lot of time in pain and going from one doctor to another isn't really how I want to go.

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
You say that as if there's a choice when really there isn't. It's fundamentally out of my control what kills me. Hell, the cancer could be growing already, or the clot or aneurism. And the amount of crap you get exposed to just drinking the water and breathing the air these days, not to mention the food you eat. You could try to minimise carcinogens but in the end it's basically a lost battle unless you completely isolate yourself from society and the outside world. Also, if I do get terminal cancer I'm not doing those cycles of pointless chemo and radiation. I'll simply live on until the cancer becomes too unbearable, at which point I'll accept my fate and die.

goodpoint 3y ago

Stop spreading misinformation. This is HN not reddit.

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
What misinformation exactly? That everyone will die one day, and that they can't choose how no matter how hard they try?