# Scott Adams says he is dying {Died January 13th, 2026 at age 68} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 22, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677 "2025-05-22T18:14:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/182 "2025-11-07T16:34:07Z")
I wish him the same that he wishes for those who are different from him. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/183 "2025-11-07T20:08:40Z")
I actually thought his article before the 2016 election on why Trump would win was actually super accurate in retrospect. A few big name people did predict Trump would win like Michael Moore but Moore also predicted Trump wouldn’t even make it to inauguration day among his many other failed predictions. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/184 "2025-11-08T01:52:09Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > So here’s a multimillionaire with an aggressive form of cancer trying to get his insurance to pay for the treatment? Insert Loki “Yes, very sad. Anyway…” meme. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/185 "2025-11-12T00:16:42Z")
My guess is that it was originally called Luvicto, but they decided the name was too close to another drug name. (Not the first time that’s happened.) So, they put a P in it to stand for “prostate.” Most likely, they produce a bunch of Pluvicto in a cyclotron, and men who receive it come in on the same day to get their dosages. A while back, a prostate cancer therapy called Provenge got a lot of publicity, in part because it cost about $100,000. It consisted of the man going to a dedicated center to have stem cells removed from his bloodstream and sent to a lab for two months for incubation, and then he would come back and have them reinfused. It obviously was done only on men who were quite likely going to be alive 2 months after the pheresis appointment. > **[Sipuleucel-T](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipuleucel-T)** > > Sipuleucel-T, sold under the brand name Provenge, developed by Dendreon Pharmaceuticals, LLC, is a cell-based cancer immunotherapy for prostate cancer (CaP). It is an autologous cellular immunotherapy. > Sipuleucel-T is indicated for the treatment of metastatic, asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic, metastatic castrate-resistant hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). Other names for this stage are metastatic castrate-resistant (mCRPC) and androgen independent (AI) or (AIPC). This stage lea... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/186 "2025-12-14T07:09:58Z")
> **[Scott Adams Paralyzed/Hospitalized](https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/12/13/scott-adams-paralyzed-hospitalized/)** > > In a situation that began yesterday and worsened today Dilbert creator Scott Adams is telling viewers: “I am paralyzed below the waist. I can’t move any muscles. I do have feeling – just can’t move any muscles.” “The solution is to ambulance me to a... ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/187 "2025-12-14T15:22:59Z")
That sucks. As much as I hate his views, it’s hard to see anyone suffer like that. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/188 "2025-12-14T15:26:21Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > That sucks. Assuming he’s not exaggerating. If he’s to be believed, he died last summer. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/189 "2025-12-14T16:12:19Z")
It’s a very plausible story. Tumors pressing the spinal column can do that. My great aunt was diagnosed with probably-lung-cancer-that’s-metastisized-everywhere because she didn’t answer the phone when my dad called her. He went over to check, and found her lying on the floor, paralyzed from the waist down. It was from a tumor. It was, by then, much too late to treat in a “trying to cure” or even “trying for remission” way. But she did have radiation therapy on that tumor, which was extremely successful. She regained the ability to walk, and was able to get around until the day before she died, several months later. That was more than 30 years ago. It was standard treatment then. I assume they can do at least as well today. I wish him well. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/190 "2025-12-14T19:15:40Z")
My late wife had a similar experience to your aunt. Fairly later in her devolution a spot of metastatic tumor grew on a lumbar vertebra and started pressing on her spinal cord. The result was lots of pain with motion and increasing weakness. It went from nothing to pretty debilitating in just a couple of weeks. Not that the tumor was all that fast growing, but it wasn’t a problem until it was, and spinal cords can’t take much prodding without misery. Left untreated, pretty quickly she’d have been immobilized. Like maybe a month later. Anyhow, they radiated that spot a ~3 times over a weekish and it gave her no further trouble for the remaining ~2 years of her life. There were lots of little sharp-shooting successful battles like this amongst the general loss of the war. Some specific narrow bits of cancer are eminently treatable even if the total situation with advanced metastatic disease is more a running must-lose battle of attrition. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/191 "2026-01-03T18:24:15Z")
Scott Adams says he is dying soonish > **[‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams doesn’t expect to live much longer](https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/02/scott-adams-dilbert-cancer-dying-paralysis/)** > > ‘Things are changing fast,’ the East Bay ‘Dilbert’ cartoonist said, explaining that prostate cancer has left him paralyzed ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/192 "2026-01-03T18:40:33Z")
At least no one can say he was a dick to the very end. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/193 "2026-01-04T00:25:17Z")
He’s on my death list. He is bad, but I don’t wish suffering of death for him. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/194 "2026-01-13T13:13:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > He’s on my death list. You may get your points. TMZ, usually pretty reliable when it comes to things like this, says Adams has now entered hospice care. > **['Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams May Only Have Days Left to Live Amid Cancer Battle](https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/12/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-hospice-prostate-cancer/)** > > Scott Adams -- the legendary cartoonist behind "Dilbert" -- doesn't have much time left ... TMZ has learned. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/195 "2026-01-13T15:18:30Z")
Some people have spent more than three years in hospice care. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/196 "2026-01-13T15:23:54Z")
I see this like the “trump is dying” thread. I read it and ask “finally?” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/197 "2026-01-13T15:41:37Z")
According to this, he made a deathbed conversion: [‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Scott Adams Takes Pascal’s Wager, Vows to Become Christian| National Catholic Register](https://www.ncregister.com/news/scott-adams-takes-pascal-s-wager-vows-to-become-christian) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/198 "2026-01-13T15:50:01Z")
Does it come with a certificate of authenticity? ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/199 "2026-01-13T15:51:52Z")
According to Variety he has died [Scott Adams Dead: Dilbert Creator Was 68](https://variety.com/2026/artisans/people-news/scott-adams-dead-dilbert-creator-1236630162/) ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/200 "2026-01-13T15:53:50Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > According to Variety he has died Woohoo! Points for me! Oops. Uh… _Oh no. How sad_ ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/201 "2026-01-13T15:58:37Z")
RIP Scott Adams. You gave me a lot of laughs before you contracted the MAGA disease. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677.md?page=11)