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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
January 18, 2006
Eight years before Oregonians voted to pass the nation's only Death with Dignity Act, Patty Rosen's 25-year-old daughter Jodie Grape asked her mother to end her fight with bone cancer.
"She said very calmly, 'Mom, I want you to help me die,'" Rosen, 68, said. "I knew she was going....