The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the biography of Henrietta Lacks, her children, and her cells, and the whole premise of the book is based on the injustice committed on them (Skloot). As explained in the book, the Lacks family have suffered great injustice from five angles; first, researchers collected cancer cell samples from Henrietta Lacks without receiving, or even requesting, consent, and tried growing them in the lab where they were found to be immortal (Skloot). Second, no one asked permission of the Lacks family to use the cells for research, or even notified anyone in the Lacks family that cells collected from Henrietta were still alive until 15 years later (Skloot). Third, after finally informing the Lacks family that Henrietta