"the odds of me recovering are essentially zero."
"I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had. If you got any benefits from my life, I ask you pay it forward as best you can."
"I think you have to be fundamentally irrational to think that you can make money as a cartoonist, and so I can never answer succinctly why it is that I thought this would work,"
"It was about the same cost as buying a lottery ticket and about the same odds of succeeding. And I buy a lottery ticket, so why not?"
Scott Adams announced in May 2025 that he had metastatic prostate cancer and only months to live. In November he sought public help on X and received intervention from President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address insurance delays for the FDA-approved drug Pluvicto, enabling a prompt appointment. Adams reported in January 2026 that the odds of recovery were essentially zero. His former wife Shelly Miles announced his death on a YouTube livestream and read his farewell asking others to pay benefits forward. Adams rose to fame in the early 1990s with Dilbert, which was widely syndicated and later canceled in 2023 amid controversy; the franchise produced books, a video game and an animated sitcom.
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