Henrietta Lacks: Achieving Immortality

Immortality is when an individual is able to have an eternal life. Before I researched on people who achieved immortality, I thought to myself, what do I know about achieving immortality? Achieving immortality is when someone makes an impressive contribution which impacts the world. Whether it is a scientific discovery or something unordinary lives we take immortality all around us. One of the most famous human being who achieved immortality is Henrietta Lacks. Scientists thought that Henrietta Lacks’ cells would be like any other cancer cells, but once they discovered her cells were multiplying rapidly in test tubes; they knew these cells would change scientists’ thinking to another level. J. Doblas, a biologist at Brunel University quoted “That lady has achieved true immortality, both in the test-tube and in the hearts and minds of scientists the world over.” This was a start of something no one had ever thought of, a cure for cancer. So far, Henrietta Lacks’ cells are contributed in the polio vaccine. This information was founded in the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot.
Deborah achieved immortality by her tolerance to other scientists. She found out that scientists were taking her mother’s cells for investigation. Deborah tolerated the fact that other scientists were using her mother’s cells for experimenting. Deborah quoted, “ . Y’all gotta sue John Hopkins, y’all gotta do this and that, but I don’t want that, truth be told, I can’t get mad at science, because it helps people live and I’d be a mess without it”. Without Deborah’s consent, we wouldn’t have gotten the chance to explore in depth with the HeLa