A longtime resident of Portland, Oregon. Raised in Idaho and attended
the University of Idaho. Graduate of The Harvard School of Business.
Administrator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in
Cambridge and the Bio-Informatics Center, Portland.
Her community interests included restoring her historic home,
gardening, and supporting public education as a board member with
Portland Public Schools. She is survived by her husband and two
children.
Cody and family became involved with the making of "How To Die In
Oregon" which documented the assisted suicide debate and her personal
struggle with terminal liver cancer. She ultimately chose the legal
right to die by state-sanctioned lethal cocktail at home surrounded by
her family in December 2009.
I'd just as soon not die. But we're all going to die. Nobody knows what's going to happen. Any of us could be hit by a bus tomorrow, but everyone hopes for something clean and painless, so this is as close as I'm going to come.