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I believe that if the scientists used Henrietta Lacks as the name for the cells then her family would have found out a lot sooner and gotten the recognition they wanted for so long in the beginning. There would have still been issues reguarding the unethical origin of the cell samples since they were taken without permission. If they had no one, every name would be a rumors with nothing real to go off of. The family and the public would never know that Henrietta contributed to these wonderful things. I believe the world would have reacted no different. The drama surrounding the Hela cells didn't immedietly effect the people outside of science or the family or media so if the situation was different, they wouldn't know any better.

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I believe Hela cell research should be continued. It has made many advanced for science and medicine already and what happened is in the past. Henrietta and her family weren't dealt good cards but what's done is done and there is no going back.

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I believe that the only way to prevent what happened to the Lacks family was if Henrietta didn't get cancer. The scientist stole a lot of cells and I believe that if Henrietta hadn't had to get surgery, there would be someone else that would have cells that would live forever. I believe that because what are the odds of Henrietta being the only person with cells like that? I believe that this could happen today.

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Kenna Ross: Response to Michaela Althoff

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Kenna Ross: Response to Michaela Althoff

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I believe that whether or not day cheated on Henrietta, she would have gotten cancer either way. Everything happens for a reason and cancer can happen to anyone at anytime.

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Do you believe that the situation revolving around the Lacks family and the Hela cells could have been prevented? If it wasn't Henrietta what's the probability of someone else doing the same thing? Could something like this happen today with a recent scientific study?

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How would this whole situation be different if the scientist used the name Henrietta Lacks instead of Helan Lane, no name, or HeLa to identify the cells? How would the rest of the world react?

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I think that HeLa research is so beneficial that it has to be continued no matter what ethical issues were broke. It saves so many lives and causes so much good. The doctors who committed that malpractice should be arrested though.

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I think Henrietta's life would have been extremely hard and tough to handle. I would not have handled it as well as she did.

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Should HeLa cell research be continued?

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Pieper Starr: Response to Brittney Ortiz

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Pieper Starr: Response to Brittney Ortiz

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I would not want to work on someone that in new had been removed from their grave. I feel like that just isn't right to do to someone even if they're not alive. If it was one of my family members I would be livid. y heart would be racing, I wouldn't know what to do. i'd probably go insane over how wrong I felt about it.

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I would have loved to help so man people with me cells but hurting my loved ones in the process i don't know that it would be worth it. your family is your support system and even though helping the lives of others your family carries that information on and on with them forever.

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What do you think it would have been like to have the life of Henrietta? How who you have handled everything that she went through?

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I suppose those people believed that they were being wise in volunteering because they wanted to help further research. It would not be done without volunteers. I personally would not have volunteered because I would not know the outcome of it. Would I die or would I take on some disease or what?  If all of my family had passed away and I really felt it was necessary, then I would. I think it helped the scientists in their research because now they know what occurs and what doesn't. They got to observe and see what happens.

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Paige Newton (Response to Brittney Ortiz)

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Paige Newton (Response to Brittney Ortiz)

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I would feel extremely disturbed and would cease performing the experiment. I would bring attention to that because that is not, to me, morally right. You should never interrupt the person's body that is at rest. Had that person given consent to do so, then I would be more open to performing an experiment on his or her body, but I would still be respectful towards what was done.

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If you could ask Henrietta, how do you think she would respond to this question?...... In the end, was it worth it? Was the information and discoveries made from your cells worth it? Was all of it worth it for your family to go through all of that in order to help many others-- especially with you having been taken advantage of? Or do you think that you were really taken advantage of?

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Response to Brittney Ortiz-  Hanna Marsh

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Response to Brittney Ortiz-  Hanna Marsh

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If I were to experience any loved ones being treated in such a way, I feel as though I'd literally severely beat if not kill someone if my loved one were not a donor or had no request for their body to be experimented upon. Today I could probably file a lawsuit against such demeaning acts, but if the body is being used with the consent of the family member who is deceased I don't see the issue.

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Response to Brittney Ortiz-  Hanna Marsh

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If I were to experience

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Response to Brittney Ortiz-  Hanna Marsh

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If I were

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Response to Brittney Ortiz-  Hanna Marsh

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Response to Brittney Ortiz-  Hanna Marsh

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Response to Brittney Ortiz-  Hanna Marsh

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Brittney Ortiz in response to Staci Lang

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Brittney Ortiz in response to Staci Lang

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I feel as if they were very wise in what they were doing when injected with cancerous cells like that. On page 129 it talks about how they did it so they could pay back what they did to get in their in the first place. It almost made them feel like they could do something better for the world instead of doing something that was harming it. They were also viewed as heroic at some points for this so it would help them feel better for when they get out of there. I would never volunteer for something like this unless I knew I was close to dying my self. It would be way to big of a risk of getting cancer on me and hoping it would go away to do that. I believe that this did help them get information out. It talks about how it was helping them to find cure for cancer when they were experimenting on them.

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Brittney Ortiz in response to Ashley Fair

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Brittney Ortiz in response to Ashley Fair

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I feel like a case like Henrietta's could still happen today but it would be a lot harder for it to happen. It would also most likely happen again to those who are in poverty and the minority. This is due to the fact that some people in America still disrespect those who they seem below them. It would be more possible that people today would get money for their cells due to all of the laws put in place. Court now days is a whole lot different then what it was and will fight for that money. Yet again they would tell us what the cells would of done because with the way communication is now it would spread like wildfire and if someone found out before the doctor would of told them it would be a lot of fighting in court yet again.

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In chapter 21 it goes on and talks about the tales of night doctors and colleges doing research on black bodies since they were the minority. It also states that "Black corpses were routinely exhumed from graves for research, and an underground shipping industry kept schools in the North supplied with black bodies from the South for anatomy courses. (Pg. 166)" What would you do if you found out that one of your loved ones or someone you knew was taken out of their grave and shipped to be an experiment? Or if you were in one of these schools how would you feel that you were working on a person that was just exhumed from their grave for you?

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I feel like what happened to Henrietta could happen today, but more than likely wouldn't. Today hospitals have so many rules and regulations to follow, so I highly doubt anything could get by without the patient approving it. If we approved to give our cells to the hospital and they made money from them, I feel like they would give a portion of it to us. Also, I feel like they would notify us of their development and changes they have made. I feel like it is the same situation as adoption. Most families that adopt like to keep the biological parents involved and notified of the child's life. I feel that the doctors would want you to know everything about how the cells have changed.

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I would not want to be immortal because you would have to watch everyone around you pass. I would not want to watch my husband, my kids, our pets, my kids' kids, and everybody else die. I would feel very lonely if I was immortal. It would be cool to see everything change and to see everybody grow, but at the same time it would be depressing to know that one day none of it would be the same.

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In chapter 17, Southam injected a saline solution mixed with HeLa into multiple inmates for cancer research. This was very dangerous to them because they did not know what the outcome would be. Do you think they were wise in their decision to volunteer? Would you volunteer? Do you think this process helped the scientists in their research

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Michaela Althoff in response to Morgan Forrest

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Michaela Althoff in response to Morgan Forrest

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I believe that while it was wrong that they took her cells without her knowledge, it was still a good thing. If they had asked Henrietta and she said no, the world would have suffered. Her cells did so many things for humanity

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Michaela Althoff response to Lexi Turner

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Michaela Althoff response to Lexi Turner

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While I don't think it is right to obtain samples using malpractice, the sample should still be used if it betters humanity. The doctor's medical license should be taken or at least suspended though.

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If Henrietta's husband hadn't cheated on her and obtained many different diseases that he eventually passed on to her, would her cancer cells have been the way they were?

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Justin Davis in Response to Morgan Forrest 

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I believe that, even though it may seem completely wrong now, it was for the best that the cells were taken. The doctors knew that what they did wasn't illegal at the time and because of their decision countless discoveries have been made. It may seem wrong now, but I feel like the positive outcomes from taking the cells outweigh the negatives. IF they had never taken the cells who knows how far we would be set back scientifically and how many diseases we would have no idea how to cure.

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I believe that it probably wouldn't happen nowadays because of all the laws put in place and the fact that law suites happen very commonly. So i think that doctors now take more caution before they do things to further develop medical research. Plus there are always so many documents that you must sign whenever they provide a service to take care of you.

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I believe that is when there will be a problem because what if someone has the perfect cells to cure specific diseases and the say no. That is when there will be a major problem because one person being selfish instead of saving others lives wouldn't be something good that could possibly happen.

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To what extent do you believe that something should be used to further science if it was obtained by malpractice. Should those doctors hold their credibility and their medical licenses? When should someone take action and say that that is just not right and something be done about it?

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To start off, throughout the 20th century and much so before it definitely wasn't anything out of the extraordinary for someone to marry or be sexually active with their extended family. Especially for African Americans whom were not so long ago considered slaves and property to the "superior" race at the time. It is obvious throughout the story that incestual relationships were not frowned upon until Deborah was growing up with her big brother Lawrence and his wife Bobbette, whom specifically told Deborah to not intermingle with her cousins like her mother and father. More or less, during Henrietta and Day's time no one questioned all of Henrietta's male cousins trying to make moves on her nor her marriage to Day.
As for  inbred marriage to this day, I'm sorry to break this to sheltered children, but this is still very much practiced today, even with all of the possible genetic disorders likely to abrupt in offspring. There are at least 6 states that have not banned first cousin marriages, including California, Florida, Maine, Georgia, the Caro!Ina's, Tennessee, and Virginia (there's a website attached that provides all legal rights per state). With that, it is estimated  that 250,00 marriages globewide are incestuous/ inbred and some Asian and European countries (Japan, England, France, Spain, Portugal, etc.) Popular examples of incestuous/ inbred marriages include Queen Elizabeth the second with first cousin once removed Prince Phillip, magnificent poet Edgar Alan Poe with his 13 year-old first cousin Virginia, German composer Johann Sebastian Bach marrying his second cousin Maria Barbara Bach, Charles Darwin who brought on the theory of evolution married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood and had ten , and even one of the world's most brilliant minds Albert Einstein married his cousin Elsa Einstein (born with surname Einstein, married once before and last name was Lowrenthal before. marriage with Albert).

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Cousin marriage law in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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Cousin marriage acceptance differs from one U.S. state to another ranging from being legal to a criminal offense.

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I agree with Morgan. What if they had asked her to do research on her tissues and she said no. Our medical world wouldn't be the same. Her cells discovered a cure for many things. Our medical world may not be as advanced as it is now. What if they never researched her cells that led to a polio vaccine? Would our world still have the diseases?

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I would not choose to be immortal because of what would be happening around me. If everyone that I loved could be immortal them maybe i would choose to be immortal. I could not watch families grow up and have fun with each other. I couldn't just make friends then watch them die and have ti make new friends every time that happened. Being immortal would be cool, but living for the rest of eternity would be scary. You'd have to see all the bad things that happen to the world. Although being immortal could be fun and you'd get to live forever, I don't think that it is what I would want to do with life.

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Secrets are kept from friends and family. Do you think that it was ethical for Day to keep what happened to his daughter Elsie and to his wife Henrietta form his family? Would things have turned out different if all his children knew what happened to his mother? or would the kids have acted out if they knew the true facts about their mother's research?

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Response to Ashley Fair- Morgan Forrest 

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I believe that something like this could happen today, but it's not likely. The talk about it would be so blown up and it would be a 10x bigger deal. If a doctor did that today their life as a doctor would be over, unlike the ones that took from Henrietta. You couldn't do something like that and not get away with it with how everyone talks. Your family would probably get a lot of money from the media blowing it up and the hospital it happened at and the doctor that did it.

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I would not wish to be immortal. Watching everyone around you go through life normal and growing old with the people they love would be difficult. And ,ovine around from place to place because you don't want people suspicious as everyone ages except you would be hard leaving it all behind.

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The biggest issue that is present in this book is whether it was right or wrong to take Henrietta's cells. We learned all about the scientific discoveries HeLa cells made. But what if they had given Henrietta a consent and she didn't give consent to take? Where would we be if we didn't collect that information we gained from them? The science world and our lives might be completely different if we didn't have the medicines to fight viruses the cells helped create.

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I think as great it would be to live forever and experience all the different phases and changes that culture and the world go through, it would also be very disturbing. There is a lot of sadness and death in the world, and if you had to spend the rest of your life seeing all the merciless bombings or killings, or diseases wipe through millions of people, you'd be very depressed, and I know that I would wish I wasn't immortal anymore. Every person on this earth has a part to play, so it is natural for death to take its course and let that person go after their job has been done. So although it would be interesting, I would have to say no and remain mortal rather than live forever.

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Yes, I do believe this could happen today. Although there are more laws that prevent it, the Supreme Court ruled in the Moore case that when something is removed from your body all of your property of the part vanishes. This shows that no matter what happens, even if one of us could create some amazing cell line that cures cancer, we still would not profit from it and would not gain the recognition we deserve

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In all 3 sections of the book, references to how the Lackses seemed to marry their cousins or mate with family members regularly throughout their family tree. Although we know now that behavior can lead to very dangerous genetic issues, it posed a moral question on the Lackses' part. For example, Henrietta grew up and married her cousin Day. Do you think this was something that seems acceptable? Or was it simply something that was common throughout other black families throughout the time period and this was simply an example? Also, now that the scientific field has found these problems and discouraged families from participating in this activity, do you still think that marrying and mating with extended family members is still something that continues today?

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Yes, we can have cells harvested by a doctor for routine tests and check-ups. If the doctor(s) wanted to harvest more cells and took them without permission, there would be several large lawsuits and the idea of doing so in today's society is less than practical.

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I suppose I would choose to be immortal, though there would be complications. You couldn't stay in one place for more than three decades, or people would realize something was weird about you (I assume the gift of immortality comes with eternal youth). You would also have to have countless aliases to ensure that no one pieces together the fact that you've been alive hundreds of years. It would be very tedious and difficult to ensure secrecy. Nonetheless, I believe it would be a fun challenge to overcome. You could also do countless good deeds considering you wouldn't have to fear death; the possibilities are endless.

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Justin Davis- In response to Ashley Fair

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I feel like if all of this happened today that there would be even more controversy. News channels and websites would fuel both sides of the argument resulting in another ruling from a higher up power such as the Supreme Court. I don't think that what happened to her would happen again though. Rules and regulations are so tight now that it would be nearly impossible for it to happen again. I don't think that the family would receive money because of the previous ruling that said that once the tissues are removed that the person no longer owns them. I would hope that they would tell us how the cells helped the world. Knowing that your or your loved one's cells help cure a disease would be awesome.

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If I was instituted I would be upset I would feel abandoned by my family. I would have to remain positive though or I would go even crazier. To tell the doctors half of us didn't belong there I would tell them to run tests on all of us and see which of us really needed to be there. Only the ones really sick should have been kept there others should have went home or put in an orphanage.

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Ashley Fair-In response to Hannah Marsh 

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I would not choose to be immortal. It would be hard to lose all the people you love even the ones that you were suppose to die before. You would have to see your children and their children die. It would be hard to have a relationship with anyone because the fear of being hurt due to death of others.

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We all have been go the doctor before and we all more and likely have had tests ran on us. Do you think the same thing that happened to Henrietta could happen to us today? Would we or our family  make profit from our cells? Would they tell us about the development and advantages our cells have made in the world ?

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Justin Davis in response to Hannah Marsh 

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I don't think I would choose to be immortal unless I could choose another person to be immortal with. Immortality would definitely have its perks, but if you are immortal alone it would get really lonely. It would be kind of cool to see how the world changes over time, but eventually you might get bored with everything. Falling in love would suck too. Seeing everyone you love die would be so depressing and you would just have to move. If i had to be immortal I would probably move every few decades to a different part of the world. I would try to learn a lot of languages and try to see everywhere in the world. All of that might sound fun, but I want to grow old and eventually die. Immortality would be more of a curse than a blessing.

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In the third section, Immortality, we learn a little about how mental hospitals were at the time. Deborah's sister, Elsie, was put in Crownsville Hospital for the Negro Insane. In the book, we learn that her diagnosis was of idiocy that was connected to syphilis. These institutions were overcrowded and the living conditions compared to a prison. To top this off, they would put people in there for almost no reason at all.
What would you do if you were put in one of these institutions? What would keep you going each day? How would you convince the doctors that there is really nothing wrong with you or the hundreds of other people in there with you? Or why do you think that these people should have been kept in these facilities?

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In "Part 1" of the book, Rebecca Skloot mentions the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments and the government's roll in the experiments on African-Americans. The experiments lasted from 1932-1972, during which the effects of syphilis were observed in the African-American test subjects until their deaths. Even though medicine was available to combat syphilis towards the end of the study, researchers and doctors did not use it to help the test subjects.  Though it is one of the most infamous studies of its kind, it is not the only one (See attached video).  According to the Washington Post, the experiments were sponsored by the Public Health Service, the National Institute of Health, the World Health Organization’s Pan American Health Organization, and the Guatemalan government.

How can we stop things like these from happening in the future and in other countries? Were the scientific institutions involved in this justified, and if not, did they receive correct punishment?

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The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases. A statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the action "reprehensible."

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In the last chapter as Skloot is watching a videotape of Deborah with her and Davon, Deborah had said aloud,  " I don't want to live forever, cause then everbody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad." Would you wish to be immortal? Why or why not?