A chronically-ill woman who featured in a controversial pro-euthanasia video in Canada had complained months earlier that she wanted to live but couldn’t access the appropriate healthcare.

Jennyfer Hatch, 37, was the subject of a campaign by Canadian fashion giant La Maison Simons which documented her experience with end-of-life care before her death by assisted suicide in October.

The ‘All is Beauty’ video – which included audio of Jennyfer talking about her ‘sacred’ last breaths – was fiercely criticised over claims it glorified suicide.

It has now emerged that Jennyfer gave an interview in June in which she complained about ‘falling through the cracks’ in attempts to get treatment for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).

She gives the harrowing conclusion that it was ‘far easier to let go than keep fighting’.