very funny tanning legend

I was reading a wedding chat board and ran across this legend (the typos belong to the original author, I left them as they added to the story, in my opinion):

A bride was to be married and wanted to have a nice tan, so for the 4 days before her wedding, she went from tanning salon to tanning salon, hitting the max amount of time that each salon would allow her, maybe hitting 4 or 5 salons in one day. she did this for about 4 days before her wedding. well the day of her wedding came and her MOH or someone else with her, was telling the bride that she had bad breathe so the bride brushed her teeth several times and could not get rid of the odor. everyone arrived at church and as she was walking down the isle, she collapsed and died. here she had fried the inside of her bodies, her organs and everything. she basically burned to death. i almost stated crying as i heard the story. that was the information that i was told, it could vary some but it is a true story. i just wanted to warn everyone has to how dangerous tanning beds can be if not used properly. so for those of you wjo tan, be cautious. sorry if i upset anyone here.

I found this to be absolutely ridiculous and browsed snopes.com. Here's what they had to say about it.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/vanities/tanbed.htm
The sad thing is many people believed her story! As though the danger of cooking your guts is worse than skin cancer...