Resulting in Lacks’s mother’s death, caused her father to separate all their siblings with different relatives to be raised. He did this because according to Skloot, that is because Lacks’ father didn’t have the patience. Therefore, Lacks ended up staying with her grandfather, T Henrieatta’s ability to move through life changing experiences such as losing a parent, is a very conflicted story to read or listen to. In the works of Rebecca Skloot's novel “The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks,” she discovers the opulent life of Henrietta Lacks that she was trying to discover. Henrietta was a poor black woman whose cells had a massive impact on blood cancer research. When Henrietta was a little girl, specifically four years old, her mother died …show more content…
Lacks died on October 4, 1951. The official cause of her death was terminal uremia. Skloot and Gray requested an autopsy to see the potential for further samples from Lacks’s various organs. However, to comply with the law, which held that an autopsy could not be completed without permission, Gey needed permission from Lacks’s family. According to Skloot, physicians only convinced Lacks’s husband to authorize the autopsy after claiming they would run medical tests on Lacks that could produce beneficial health information for his children. Genes collected from Lacks are some of the most commonly used cells in biomedical research. Scientists have used Lacks’s cells, through the HeLa cell line, to test the effects of zero gravity on human cells in space, to study the human genome, and across a wide array of disease and vaccine research. In the end, after all that has been said and done, my personal take on Lack’s is that she has succeeded on her journey and made amazing achievements in her life, and she did all of this even if things had seemed like they were supposed to