Posted on 01/13/2026 3:18:10 PM PST by Morgana
Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” has died after being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. The cartoonist’s former wife Shelly Miles announced his death in a livestream on X on Tuesday morning, reading a statement Adams had prepared.
"If you are reading this, things did not go well for me," the statement began.
Miles fought through tears as she read the message, which was dated Jan. 1. She said Adams had been in hospice care at his Pleasanton, Calif., home.
“I had an amazing life,” it concluded. “I gave it everything I had. If you got any benefits from my work, I'm asking you to pay it forward as best you can. That is the legacy I want. Be useful. And please know I loved you all to the end.”
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I will miss him. Listened almost every day for the last five years and feel like I knew him. Very sad today.
He died safely and effectively.
RIP
I listened daily, read all his books. An amazing guy.
I’ll miss him.
Turbo cancer after vax, then he didn’t follow through on treatment from Dr. Makis. Too bad, had he stayed with the Makis protocol, he might still be here.
(Turbo cancer after vax)
Yikes 😳
I tried to contact him about treatments but I was told he’d heard it all and wasn’t listening to fans.
I recall one Dilbert strip where he said it was “unfunny” to point out people had to e-mail technical support when their e-mail wasn’t working.
Apparently readers sent him ideas.
Question: does prostate cancer sneak up on you and is a once a year psa test sufficient?
He encouraged readers to let him know business trends, practices that were occurring in the workforce. Back in the 1990s, he would regularly answer emails off his old @aol.com account.
Generally speaking, if you’re going to get a cancer, prostate is the one you want but like everything, there are exceptions. His cancer ended up spreading to different parts of his body.
” Pleasanton, Calif.”
Paradise.
But yes, regular physicals with bloodwork is how its usually discovered.
The May 19, 2025 video where Scott publicly announced his prostate cancer. And he mentions that with the assistance of Dr Makis he had tried ivermectin and fenbendazole and “it didn’t work at all”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NPIr9cNZA4
He was great. A damned shame.
A person can get prostate cancer even after the prostate is removed. PSA (prostate specific antigen) tests are still a good idea yearly even after the removal of the prostate.
“ does prostate cancer sneak up on you and is a once a year psa test sufficient?”
Yes, and yes.
Not supposed to die from prostate cancer but my Dad did 21 years ago this month. Still don’t know how long he had it or if he knew. The precursors were all there, he ignored them best I can tell. When he retired he quit his exec physicals. His was like Scott’s, all over him.
I watch for the signs but get PSA done once a year and have to remind the doc to include that and a few other things every year and check the lab orders before the work is done. I’m now adding the lp(a) for clot tendency this year.
MRI appears to be the new gold standard for conclusive diagnosis. Urologists don’t like it because there is more money in doing needle biopsy which is prone to miss the target.
Treatment varies but all I know done timely are successful and men die of something else including peas, ablation and radical.
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You do the best you can and keep watching.
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