Helen Louisa Thoreau (1812 - 1849) Abolitionist and a member of the Concord Women’s Anti-Slavery Society
She is the sister Notable Henry David Thoreau and eldest of the 4 Thoreau children. She was born in Concord Massachusetts and was a school teacher, abolitionist and a member of the Concord Women’s Anti-Slavery Society. She passed away at the age of 36 from being ill of Tuberculosis having never married and no children of her own. I would like to add more to her bio and sources. Amazing woman of her generation and era!  

  

I believe Louisa is her middle name
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There is no scientific evidence to support the existence of anyone's soul.   

However, if souls do exist, then I'm sure Henrietta Lacks had one.   

  

Do you believe that the blood cells that people donate for transfusions have souls?   

Do you believe that the body parts that people donate for transplantation have souls?   

Do you believe that a living person who donates a kidney has lost a part of his/her soul? Do you believe that amputees have amputated souls?   

Do sperm cells have souls? Or, unfertilized eggs?   

What about skin cells you shed daily?   

  

If souls exist, then the cells from Henrietta Lacks' cervical cancer would be no more likely to possess a soul than the blood cells hanging in a transfusion bag.   

  

If heaven exists, would Henrietta Lacks be denied access until all her cells have died? What if someone donates a kidney and the recipient continues to live after the doner has died? Can the doner get into heaven while the recipient is still alive?   

  

The religious answer to this question is various, as it depends entirely on personal opinion, faith, beliefs and/or religion. (Some JW's reject blood transfusions - but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with souls).   

  

The scientific answer to this question is that souls do not exist (hence, the religious answers to this question are irrelevant to science).   

  

Here's a reference for those who don't know what HeLa cells are:   

[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-na...](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html) wow marlboro! yikes! ouch! even though i&#39;ve been working with queer issues for many years i am still struck by what you&#39;ve told us. it is a very sad reflection on our society, where same-sex marriage is legal, that parents can throw gay youth out of their homes. ignorance and prejudice run very deep.<br><br>what are your ages?<br> yes. theodor herzl was a self proclaimed atheist. in fact, he hated judaism and religious jews. below is a list of his quotes along with information on him: 

words of theodor hertzel (the father of zionism) and other zionist leaders 

theodor hertzlthe term "zionism" was first introduced in 1893 by nathan birmbaum, but theodor hertzel, an austrian jew born to a prosperous, emancipated budapest family, is recognized as the founder of the zionist idealogy when he published his book in 1896, "the jewish state", where he declared that the cure for anti-semitism was the establishment of a jewish state. as he saw it, the best place to establish this state was in palestine. 

while hertzel claimed that the establishment of a "jewish" state would cure anti-semitism, he also promoted anti-semitism to further his cause.

quotes from hertzel and other zionists demonstrate their philosophy and the lengths to which they are willing to go to accomplish their goals:
 
in the diary of hertzel, page 14, he writes a way to solve the problem of anti-semitism was to speak to the head priest of vienna to get an appointment with the pope, to make a mass conversion of all the jews of austria to catholicism. he continues: "it should be done on a sunday, in the middle of the day, with music, and pride, publicly. we are the last generation that held on to the faith of our for-fathers. the conversion would be in st. stephen's cathedral." (how could you honor a jew that wanted to abolish judaism?) 
in the bi-weekly diary, "temurah", no.2, pg. 12-13, "i didn't circumsize my son hans, and this will bring the geula closer." 
ibid. "simple goyim are better than rabbis, and the highest are the goyish priests." 
in his article "deutche tsytung newspaper" hertzel writes: "the jews make countries fight each other and when they want, make peace. but whatever happens, they get rich from this." (hitler said this also). 
diary, page 16: "antisemitism helps to build this kind of jew, education that will bring to assimilation." 
diary, page 68: "an idea rose on my heart to bring on anti-semitism and to obliterate jewish wealth. 
in the book "hertzel", this is a quote: "i bless every jew that converts to christianity and my son, the sooner the better, to save him from anti-semitism. 
after the dreyfus affair, hertzel saw the engraned jew hatred and that the goyim would not accept the jews with open arms, then he came up with zionism, after being convinced by the british goyim on the land of israel. he himself originally wanted other lands, one of them being argentina. 
in his book, "altnoyland", "its understood that i have to remember (or mention) to discard negative jewish things, like the yiddish language and observing mitzvos." 
doctor amnun raz kavkotzikin -- historian at the university of ben gurion says: "the country of hertzel is a western european anti-eastern (sephardic) and anti-religious." 
chaim chassas, in the newspaper of the zionist's, ha'arutz, 1943, "zionism and judaismm is not one thing but two different things. and of course two contradicting one another. zionism starts at the place where judaism is destroyed...one thing is certain, zionism is not a continuation or healing of wounded judaism, but rather an uprooting." 
doctor tom shagav, historian and newspaper writer, "zionism saw itself as competition as to religion, to define a jew without torah. a zionist could be a jew without any faith, even a kofer." 
doctor faul shaul landau, the personal secretary of hertzel, saw to it that all of hertzel's writings were published against the will of the other zionists who feared the open anti-semitic element of his writings. 
zev japotinsky in his article "outside the camp", in the newspaper "chadashot haaretz" 22/10/1919: "in the national home we will announce that those jews who have on themselves the rust of gulles, and deny to shave off their beards and payos will be 2nd class citizens and will not have the right to vote." 
ben gurion, in his book "yehudi ve' od", "the disapora is ending and everyone is coming, this still does not make a nation but a mixed multitude and dust of man, without a language and education, without roots. to change dust of man to a cultured nation is not an easy job." 
ben gurion: "if i could save all the children of germany by bringing them to england and only half to israel, i would choose the second." 
yoel bronde/eichman offered him a deal to save a million jews for money and the sochnute decided not to, and they were murdered. 
wusshishkin, head of the jewish national fund in the 1920's (there is a street named after him in jerusalem), "what's the difference between jews getting killed in the diaspora and the land of israel? they [of the disapora] are sacrifices of a dying nation. there was no purpose in their death, just like there was no purpose in their life. not so with the sacrifices in our land, we look at them with pride." 
yitzchak greenbaum, zionist responsible for Hmm, not sure. It should be something like Holly or Carol, but I am intrigued to know! :) I'm so sorry. This is hard to accept. But sometimes people get to the point that they don't want to socialize. My mother - who was once very social - simply arrived at a point where she only wanted those close to her or the nursing home staff around. She was in a lot of pain which I think was much of it.   
  
If your mother was once social, then you could ask the doctor to experiment with her medications. There may be other options.  
  
However, sometimes we have to accept that these diseases take their course and we can only do so much. Forcing what the person obviously doesn't want isn't helpful.  
  
Offering suggestions - yes - so continue to do that. I'm certain that the AL staff does the same. But you can't make it happen if it's not going to happen. Offer all of the support that you can.  
Take care of yourself, too.  
Carol she might be depressed. judicious low dose treatment might help her.... and you. see a geriatrician. i went to sunday mass to praise him, a duty for all catholics. during my praising, i said a prayer for my middle brother who is in the hospital and will die of leukemia within the next three days max. as stated by hist doctor. 
you see, catholics are not allowed to remarry after being divorced. however, following his divorce, he found himself with two young girls in his arms, and remarried for their sake.
my prayer was simple and right to the point: "dear jesus, you died on the cross out of love in order to save us. please be merciful on my brother's soul and do not hold his second marriage against him, because like you, he did it for his love of his little girls!".
i am sure jesus will understand! unhelpfully, i can track it down to the "thomas sowell reader" ( http://www.amazon.com/thomas-sowell-reader/dp/0465022502 ) but as this is a collection of extracts from his other works, that is not very useful.

i can find a suggestion that it is in the book "civil rights: rhetoric or reality?" (1985).

i am sorry that i am unable to be of more help congratulations on your third baby! i did not have the test but at my 20 week ultrasound we found out that our daughter had spina bifidia! i do know that a good percentage of those test are a false positive so i know it is hard to not freak out! try to wait till you have all the test done! spina bifidia/ neural tube defect is not a death sentence, it has a set of challenges but my daughter is a very happy normal almost 7 year old! we were apart of the moms study and had inutero surgery at 25 weeks! there are a few groups on facebook that are all people with sb or parents of kids with sb! feel free to check them out and ask any more questions! they are united by spina bifida and spinia bifida fetal surgery! i can add you to the group if you are interested! i will be praying for you and your baby! i had a teacher space out while teaching. she was like 80 years old (no exaggeration) and i was freaked out. i thought she was going to die or something. and i was 30 and in college; i really was freaked.

turns out she had a weird illness and had to go to the er that night and spent 3 days in icu! she told us about it the next time she came to class.