I believe that patients should have the option to decide what happens to their samples when in a clinical trial. The patient should be thoroughly informed on what happens to their samples, what’s going on, and how it could help many other sick patients. Many patients would decide to help those in need but it should depend on the patient since it is their samples after all. There will be more patients willing to consent to using their samples for research that the amount of people saying no for consent would not do a disservice to the larger scientific community and trying to find cures. I also do believe that even though Henrietta Lacks did not have the option to get informed consent, she did have a huge impact in medical research and should have been compensated for this. Her samples helped many other patients and is very well known that the cell line was named after her. This is just like becoming an organ donor. It is your own decision whether you want to donate any part of your body/organ for other people so you should be able to decide for everything else. There is also consent on a patient getting treated by EMT’s and doctors. If they refuse to go to the hospital or want to be treated by someone, they are not required too. Forcing a patient do something against their will is unethical and consent should be given before doing research on a patient’s sample.