A Michigan woman wracked by excruciating pain from COVID-19 repeatedly called on her artificial intelligence virtual assistant to help her during her dwindling days of life.
LouAnn Dagen, a patient at the Metron of Cedar Springs nursing home, continuously asked the Amazon device Alexa for assistance about 40 times over a four-day span in a desperate plea to stay alive, reported Grand Rapids TV station WOOD.
“I am in pain. I have to find a way to relieve it,” Dagen told Alexa in one heartbreaking conversation. “Can you help me cope with pain?”
But the 66-year-old woman, who suffered a stroke nearly a decade earlier and was beset by hypertension and diabetes, died April 4 at a Grand Rapids hospital.
Dagen’s older sister Penny Dagen discovered the recordings after LouAnn passed away.
"I just kept telling her there wasn’t anything I could do, Penny Dagen tearfully told WOOD. “I’m sorry I couldn’t help you more. I’d take your pain away.”
LouAnn Dagen, a patient at the Metron of Cedar Springs nursing home, continuously asked the Amazon device Alexa for assistance about 40 times over a four-day span in a desperate plea to stay alive, reported Grand Rapids TV station WOOD.
“I am in pain. I have to find a way to relieve it,” Dagen told Alexa in one heartbreaking conversation. “Can you help me cope with pain?”
But the 66-year-old woman, who suffered a stroke nearly a decade earlier and was beset by hypertension and diabetes, died April 4 at a Grand Rapids hospital.
Dagen’s older sister Penny Dagen discovered the recordings after LouAnn passed away.
"I just kept telling her there wasn’t anything I could do, Penny Dagen tearfully told WOOD. “I’m sorry I couldn’t help you more. I’d take your pain away.”
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