An Alberta woman at the centre of a court case over her request for a physician-assisted death has died with the help of a doctor.

The woman known as E-F in court documents suffered a mental condition called severe conversion disorder which had left her effectively blind, unable to eat and in constant pain.

Trista Carey, the woman's lawyer, says E-F passed away peacefully earlier this week in Vancouver, surrounded by her family and good friends.

Last month an Alberta Court of Queen's Bench judge allowed her an assisted death, but the federal government appealed the decision, which was later upheld by the Alberta Court of Appeal.