The Lack's family's beliefs helped them get through the legal issues and the media because they believed that god was watching over them along with Henrietta. Knowing that they felt safer when it came to all of these problems. In, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", Gary Deborah's Cousin reads a passage to the author "Those who believes in me will live, even though they die: and those who live and believe in me will never die."(Skloot 295). With quotes from the bible such as these and the lack of education that the Lack's family was able to receive due to american culture at the time it is understandable why they would compare the idea of Henrietta's immortal cancer cells to a god keeping her alive. This idea that god kept her alive to help our world up until now may have helped given the family some closure like when we hold funerals as apart of the grieving process.
Rebecca Skloot. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Broadway Books, 2010. Print.
