Scott Adams passes away from cancer at 68, accepts Christ in final statement

In his final moments, he accepts Christ as his savior and told viewers that his Christian friends had encouraged him to do so. He had said over the past week, as his condition worsened, that he would do so.

"Unfortunately, this isn't good news," said Adams' ex-wife Shelly Miles. "Of course, he waited till just before the show started. He's not with us right anymore. I'm gonna try to get through this. He has a final message that he wanted to say, so I'm going to try to read it, trying to be strong.

"'If you are reading this, things did not go well for me,'" Miles read, "'I have a few things to say before I go. My body fell before my brain. I am of sound mind as I write this January 1, 2026 if you wonder about any of my choices for my estate or anything else, please know I'm free of any reason or inappropriate influence of any sort, I promise next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go.

"'I'm not a believer, but I have to admit, the risk reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me. So here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and look forward to spending an eternity with Him. The part about me not being a believer should be quite quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven, I won't need any more convincing than that. I hope I'm still qualified for entry.'"

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On Monday, he was transferred to hospice care with only a few days to live. He was 68 years old. Earlier in January, Adams had announced that his prognosis had worsened. While he still hosted his show, it became a call-in stream where he spoke to friends and long-time fans, essentially saying goodbye.

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“I talked to my radiologist yesterday. He was working on the day before New Year’s and it’s all bad news,” Adams said. “So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero. I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.” In the fall, he had attempted experimental treatment after asking the Trump administration to intervene and help him access that treatment despite being blocked by his insurance company.

“You should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition, one way or the other,” Adams said. “I haven’t made any decisions, but it was all bad news. No good news at all," he said.

His Coffee with Scott Adams program went on air on Tuesday morning and it was announced that he had died just prior to air. His books and work will live on past him. His Dilbert comic strip was syndicated worldwide. He also wrote "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life," "Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success." Both were part of The Scott Adams Success Series, which also included "Loserthink: How Untrained Brains are Ruining America."

Adams was born in 1957 in Windham, New York and earned an MBA from Berkeley University after being discouraged from pursuing comics. He came back to his first love after working as a bank teller and being hired at Pacific Bell. The Dilbert comics were inspired by his work in corporate America.

When he launched the comic, based in part on his coworkers, he started asking for ideas from readers and they happily complied. "Most of the ideas I use are from e-mail," he said in 1995. "It's like tapping into this great collective consciousness. The office and technology themes were the most popular. I shifted the emphasis [from home life], and the strip's popularity zoomed."

Office workers were said to have posted Dilbert comics in their office spaces as a form of "passive resistance" to the corporatification of their lives and work. It was also in 1995 that he began to focus on writing full time.