CONCORD, N.H. - In the months before colon cancer took her life, aspiring teacher Michelle Morse attended Plymouth State University full-time, often wearing a chemotherapy pump on her hip to class or when she did her student teaching.
To remain covered under her mother's health insurance, Morse had to either maintain a full course load or pay about $550 a month. She chose the former, even though her doctors urged her to cut back.
"I'm scared for my mom and dad," she wrote in her journal in December 2003, just after she was diagnosed. "I want to make this easier on them."
By the time she died in November at 22, Morse had become a reluctant celebrity, lending her name to a bill aimed at sparing others the tough decision she faced.
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