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The family of a central Alberta woman who recently won a court decision allowing her to die with the aid of a physician has issued a statement asking the federal government to accept the ruling.

“Our beloved wife and mother believes in God. She says he is a merciful God who does not want her to endure intolerable pain — pain she says she would not wish upon any human being — against her will,”’ reads the statement, issued Friday through the woman’s Red Deer-based law firm, Schnell Hardy Jones LLP.

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“We plead with the Attorney General of Canada to respect these decisions.”

The woman, known as E.F., has been diagnosed with a mysterious medical illness called “severe conversion disorder,” a psychiatric condition in which the body responds to stress or emotional trauma by exhibiting physical symptoms. Though not terminally ill, E.F. told court the illness has left her with no quality of life and no hope of improvement.

She says it feels like she’s under a constant barrage of arrows from an archer’s bow. — statement from the family of E.F.

Earlier this month, a Red Deer judge granted the woman’s application for a doctor-assisted death, but the ruling was appealed by the Attorney General of Canada. This week, the Alberta Court of Appeal issued a unanimous decision upholding the original ruling.

It is not known if federal Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould plans to pursue the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. In the statement, E.F.’s family said she has suffered enough and should be spared further delay.