[4] Canadian academic Clive Thompson has referred to Causse as a "writer of radical lesbian texts.

Her translations of works included texts by Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Willa Cather, Mary Daly, Ignazio Silone, and Alice Munro.

[9] Causse chose to end her life on her 74th birthday, with assistance from Dignitas, a Swiss non-profit organization for physician-assisted suicide.

[10][11] Although Causse had no terminal illness, she listed several medical issues as reasoning for her medically-assisted death, including vertebral compression fractures exacerbated by osteoporosis, the loss of a kidney, and asthma.

[13] Her death was filmed and shown in the documentary Dignitas - la mort sur ordonnance,[14] which aired on Swiss television.