# 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:** 7
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/122 "2025-06-16T03:09:57Z")
That was a plot point in _Thor: Love and Thunder,_ too. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/123 "2025-06-18T15:38:55Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Parenthetical comment, about a really good comic book series, which built on the fact that cancer is your own body, gone rogue; I put it in spoilers, as it is a sidetrack. Ha, I literally just posted about reading this in another thread. That was a good run. I have a Jane Foster Thor t-shirt and framed comic book poster of her. She chose to be a hero even though it killed her. ---
**Author:** ![Garak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Garak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garak)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/124 "2025-07-08T06:07:16Z")
incredible news, Scott Adams fans a miracle cure has saved him > **['Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Shares Incredible News After Terminal Cancer...](https://rumble.com/v6viy99-dilbert-creator-scott-adams-shares-incredible-news-after-terminal-cancer-di.html)** ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/125 "2025-07-08T07:05:08Z")
Who didn’t see this coming once he found out that waves of sympathy from millions of concerned well-wishers wasn’t forthcoming. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/126 "2025-07-08T07:11:12Z")
> [@Garak](#): > > incredible news, Scott Adams fans > > a miracle cure has saved him - For anyone who doesn’t care to watch, he didn’t quite say that a miracle cure has saved him, but he thinks it’s buying him some time. Scott Adams says that he’s been taking testosterone-blocking drugs which have managed to completely stop the terrible pain he’s been in, enough pain that today was to have been the day he took his suicide drugs. Now he thinks he can hang on for awhile longer, for as long as the meds keep working to suppress the cancer cells, although the drug is known to lose its effectiveness over time. His PSA level is much lower. He’s able to walk again, which he hadn’t really been able to do for months. He still looks scarily like he’s one foot out of the grave, though. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/127 "2025-07-08T07:40:49Z")
So he may make it long enough to get a position on my 2026 Death Pool list… ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/128 "2025-07-08T07:41:52Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Scott Adams says that he’s been taking testosterone-blocking drugs Scott Adams, less than a year ago: [![](https://i.imgur.com/htqQdLY.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/htqQdLY.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/129 "2025-07-08T09:44:01Z")
Maybe he decided that being a eunuch (because, functionally, that’s what that sort of testosterone-blocking does) was preferably to agonizing pain and, if he doesn’t feel bad, he wants to live some more? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/130 "2025-07-08T10:53:09Z")
I’m not pointing it out because of hypocrisy, I’m pointing out because of karma biting a bad person in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/131 "2025-07-08T12:40:07Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I have no idea what he was trying to say with that. He knew his son was going to shoot up a high school and so he let him OD? This is so long ago you’ve probably forgotten about it, but after reading the article I believe he was saying there needs to be some way to lock up young men who are a danger to themselves and others. Perhaps compulsory detox and drug treatment for his stepson, and making involuntary commitment easier in cases like these: > **[Shapiro arson suspect’s family repeatedly tried to get help in the days...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/politics/shapiro-arson-suspect-sought-help-authorities-invs)** > > Cody Balmer’s family said before the attack, he acted erratically, including by chewing on batteries and disappearing for days. “Doing nothing or else killing them” was a hyperbolic way to say that he thinks nothing else will help if this option isn’t allowed. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/132 "2025-07-10T21:01:24Z")
> [@Garak](#): > > a miracle cure has saved him [![](https://media.tenor.com/vh0yzDWFkIUAAAAM/minion-minions.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/vh0yzDWFkIUAAAAM/minion-minions.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/133 "2025-07-10T21:18:56Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Still, I agree with your last line. I didn’t know there was an “agressive” form of tthis cancer. In my ignorant mind I thought doctors would say “You’ll die of something else before this” - doesn’t King Charles have it? And is Biden also going to die soon? Just spotted this thread - and yes, you can die of prostate cancer: my father was told much the same (you’ll die with it, not of it). That turns out to have been a mistake. My brother developed early-stage PC when he was in his mid-to-late 60s and his doctor was inclined to wave it off, until my brother pointed out the family history. They treated it aggressively (surgery). He’s considered cured. Turns out it may be due to a genetic predisposition: brother and I are both in the Bad BRCA1 gene club. No way of telling if Dad was of course, and the evidence for BRCA1 and prostate cancer isn’t super strong, but… ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/134 "2025-07-12T01:37:24Z")
Sorry to hear about your father and glad your brother is cured. It’s cancer so of course it can kill you, especially at latter stages yet I had heard so many times doctors do minimise it with the “you’ll live long enough to die of something else” which, to coin a term, sounds to me like Hippocratic Laziness esp without inquiring about family history. I realise there is danger in any surgery yet in your brother’s case that could have gone to final stages real quick. So indeed, there is an “aggressive” type. I’m not even 60 and only have the UK’s NHS to rely on, not massive marketer comic strip guy money. I will not at all be content to hear the “you’ll die of something else” if it’s detected. They were real good with a recent colonoscopy. Thus I assume I’m guaranteed 20 years or more (JK). ---
**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/135 "2025-07-12T01:56:37Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > [Norman Solomon’s The Trouble with Dilbert](https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Dilbert-Corporate-Culture-Laugh-ebook/dp/B00B10BQ1K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AMW9QZQJH97Q&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MwCs1WHTSH0rnH7a641VSGbhnMDVwq27KcaaW7m_5KO-OaYltDIzIq6GKKMcGeHjaLO4gW3WmqWsdW-wTD_RPAKq0TW4WLFIA3DIhDNVaV4._-cDhrQbX2jaibt952e9QbiGBm7R568IwovL3n28Rao&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+trouble+with+dilbert&qid=1748058193&sprefix=the+trouble+with+dilbert%2Caps%2C66&sr=8-1) gave me a think years ago. yeah, a book with a 2.7 rating on Amazon…I’m no fan of the person Scott Adams became, but this is a clumsy hatchet job at best. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/136 "2025-07-12T18:00:53Z")
Based entirely on its Amazon star rating? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/137 "2025-07-19T00:14:29Z")
I read the Amazon reviews. They were primarily from right wing folks attacking the author for being “leftist” and “a Marxist”. One even accused the author of being “jealous”. I wouldn’t give that rating much credence. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/138 "2025-11-02T21:40:29Z")
Interesting post script on this. On Twitter Adams begged Trump to help him with an issue with his insurance regarding his condition and RFK Jr literally responded. I guess the secret to getting healthcare is being rich and friends with the President. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/139 "2025-11-02T21:47:13Z")
More on those morons: > **[Trump offers two words in response to Dilbert creator seeking help with...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dilbert-two-words-cancer/)** > > The creator of the Dilbert cartoon strip said on Sunday that he needs Donald Trump to save his life, and the president responded with just two short words.Controversial cartoonist Scott Adams took to social media over the weekend to make his plea to... ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/140 "2025-11-02T21:57:49Z")
His two word reply was supposedly “On it!”. The fact that he was sitting on the toilet at the time is totally coincidental. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677/141 "2025-11-02T22:32:17Z")
The drug he needs is radioactive and called Pluvicto. But it contains Lutetium-177, not Plutonium. (Should be called Luvicto?) Appears to be a rare and expensive drug not for artificial scarcity reasons but for real scarcity reasons: > Found with almost all other rare-earth metals but never by itself, lutetium is very difficult to separate from other elements. Its principal commercial source is as a by-product from the processing of the rare earth [phosphate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate) mineral [monazite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monazite) ([Ce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerium),[La](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum),…)[P](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus)[O](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen) 4, which has concentrations of only 0.0001% of the element,[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium#cite_note-aaaaaa-23) not much higher than the abundance of lutetium in the Earth crust of about 0.5 mg/kg. No lutetium-dominant minerals are currently known.[[40]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium#cite_note-40) The main mining areas are China, United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and Australia. The world production of lutetium (in the form of oxide) is about 10 tonnes per year.[[33]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium#cite_note-Emsley240-33) Pure lutetium metal is very difficult to prepare. It is one of the rarest and most expensive of the rare earth metals with the price about US$10,000 per kilogram, or about one-fourth that of [gold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold).[[41]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium#cite_note-41)[[42]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium#cite_note-42) Lutetium-177 has a half-life of around 6 days, so it basically needs to be used immediately after it is produced: > 177Lu is produced by [neutron activation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_activation) of 176Lu or by indirectly by neutron activation of 176Yb followed by [beta decay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay). The 6.693-day half-life allows transport from the production reactor to the point of use without significant loss in activity.[[43]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium#cite_note-PillaiKnapp-43) (The drug is an atom of Lutetium-177 attached to a molecule that binds to a cell membrane protein, allowing the atom to decay on the cancer cell.) Could be a real supply chain issue with supplying a dose on a couple of days notice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-says-he-is-dying-died-january-13th-2026-at-age-68/1018677.md?page=8)