In a recent Another Voice column, Max Rodriguez talks about fact, not fiction, and ends with "You can look it up." I have looked it up. And I have lived it. And he is just plain wrong. As a proud Buffalonian living with a disability, Rodriguez certainly doesn’t speak for me.

When my mom was diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer and informed of her terminal diagnosis, she was adamant that she didn’t care how much time she had but how that time was spent. She didn’t want to be in pain or suffer. She wanted to be with family and friends, doing the things she loved to do as long as she could.

Mom fought this aggressive disease longer than her doctors thought she would. She met with legislators via zoom and talked to them via the news media, urging support for medical aid in dying. In hospi

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