The Death of Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks died on October 4,2017 in Baltimore, Maryland. When she died her doctor at John Hopkins ,named George Gey, asked David to sign for him to do an autopsy of Henrietta's body. David signed the papers not knowing what he was signing for. When Dr. Gey had the autopsy done he retrieved the rest of her tumor cells. When he got the cells he cut the tumor in to smaller pieces and put them in test tubes to be sold.