If a patient doesn't want to give consent, then the doctor doesn't have the right to take tissue samples from him or her and use it or make a profit from it. Henrietta didn't know about her cells being taken when she was alive and neither did her family. It was unfair to Henrietta and her family, but what Deborah Lacks, Henrietta daughter, suffered after her mother's death was too much for her to handle.

             After her mother's death at a young age, Deborah managed to survive an abusive stepmother, teen pregnancy, and a failed marriage. Her formal education was limited, and her health and family problems were many. But she continued and managed to subdue her anger and terror over losing her mother and sister into doing better for herself and her family. Still she was harassed by media, doctors, and lawyers for information about her mother and the HeLa cells.

             Skloot describes how the Lacks family was attacked by reporters questioning them about the HeLa cells and not about Henrietta Lacks. I was irritated with the media reporters because they were making Henrietta's family's life hell when they were asking about her cells, reminding them that their mother was dead. I found out that George Gey announced the discovery of immortal cells" on television in Baltimore without mentioning that they came from a woman name Henrietta Lacks. Even though his intention was to save people's lives with the immortal HeLa cells, it was low of him to take credit for himself. Back then there was a term called "benevolent deception"," which described how doctors withheld information from their patients, thinking that it might upset the patient. It's wrong to withhold information from a patient when it's about his or her health, especially for Henrietta Lacks. .

             What shocked me was when Laure Aurelian, a microbiologist, said that Gey reported a conversation with Henrietta. He told Henrietta that her cells would save lives, and she smiled and told him that her pain was worth it if it helped someone else: "George told me he leaned over Henrietta's bed and said,'Your cells will make you immortal.