Cody Curtis

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.