 He died of a stroke on March 14, 2013, at the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal at the age of 69.Even in death, Rose was the source of controversy.Amir Khadir, one of two deputies of the sovereigntist party "Quebec solidaire", which had absorbed the UFP in 2006, proposed tabling a motion in the Quebec provincial legislature to honour his death.