was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the summer of 2004. Death Ruzicka and her Iraqi translator, Faiz Ali Salim, were killed by a suicide car bombing on the Baghdad Airport Road on April 16, 2005. More than 600 people attended her funeral in her hometown of Lakeport; Barbara Boxer and Sean Penn were among those who spoke at her memorial service. There were also memorial services in New York City, Washington, D.C., Baghdad, Kabul, and San Francisco. According to Rolling Stone, "Ruzicka is perhaps the most famous American aid worker to die in any conflict of the past ten or twenty years. Though a novice in life—she had less than four years of professional humanitarian experience—her death resonated far beyond the tightly knit group of war junkies and policymakers who knew her. She stands as a youthful representative of a certain kind of not-yet-lost American idealism, and darkly symbolic of what has gone so tragically wrong in Iraq." Marla Ruzicka left a one line will stating that her friend, war journalist Tara Sutton, would take care of CIVIC and appoint a new director. At Senator Leahy's urging, President George W. Bush signed legislation on May 11, 2005, which renamed the civilian war victims the "Marla Ruzicka Iraqi War Victims Fund." As of 2006, the combined sum that Congress has allocated to assist Afghan and Iraqi civilians who were victims of U.S. warfare is thirty-eight million dollars. Depiction in film media Film rights to Ruzicka's life story were purchased by Paramount Pictures. The studio also bought the rights to the book Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story by Jennifer Abrahamson, who had begun collaborating on the book with Ruzicka before her death. Kirsten Dunst agreed to play Ruzicka in the movie scripted by Lorene Scafaria. Ruzicka appears briefly in the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room as one of the protesters who disrupts Jeffrey Skilling's speech at The Commonwealth Club. References External links Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story, Biography published by Simon & Schuster CIVIC website Iraqi Civilian War Casualties, The results of CIVIC's campaign in Iraq. https://www.comune.re.it/Applicazioni/stradarioCAP.nsf/PESVieWeb/7EA1880ADE750DACC1257705003A6E51?opendocument, Municipality of Reggio Emilia new street dedication. Magazines and newspapers Independent, A legacy that puts so many to shame The Globe and Mail, My friend died helping Iraqi civilians (Obituary by Mark MacKinnon) Guardian, Marla Ruzicka (Obituary) Lake County Record-Bee, Statement in honor of Marla Ruzicka - Senator Barbara Boxer