""If you are reading this, things did not go well for me." That's how Scott Adams' X account announced his death on Jan. 13, reaching an enormous global audience in much the way he had for decades throughout a career that spanned both the cartoon pages and front pages of newspapers for the controversial personality. Adams, creator of the satirical office comic strip " Dilbert" and later a polarizing conservative-leaning online commentator, died in Pleasanton, Calif., at 68 from metastatic prostate cancer."
"He had publicly disclosed in May 2025 he was battling aggressive prostate cancer that had already spread and said "the odds of me recovering are essentially zero." In late 2025, Adams described a tumor near his spine that left him paralyzed from the waist down, telling viewers: "I can't move any muscles. I do have feeling, I just can't move any muscles.""
Scott Adams created the comic strip Dilbert and later became an online commentator. He died in Pleasanton, Calif., at 68 from metastatic prostate cancer after months of rapidly declining health, paralysis from the waist down, and hospice care. He disclosed that he faced aggressive prostate cancer and said "the odds of me recovering are essentially zero." A tumor near his spine left him unable to move muscles. He continued posting YouTube videos while receiving end-of-life care. His X account posted a final message in which he wrote, "I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had."
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