An Australian woman has decided to end her own life with medical assistance to “die on her own terms” after years of living with a rare and terminal neurological disease.

Annaliese Holland, 25, said she has been ill since she was a child, enduring repeated hospital stays as doctors tried to diagnose an illness that caused chronic pain, nausea, and vomiting — and forced her to depend on IV feeding for the past decade, she told News.com.au.

She was diagnosed with autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy, a rare autoimmune disease in which the body attacks the autonomic ganglia, the nerves responsible for controlling involuntary bodily functions, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Years before her diagnosis, Holland’s bowels acted as if they were blocked, despite there actually being nothing st

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