Disaster 'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Dead at 68

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Cartoonist Scott Adams has died after a battle with prostate cancer.

Adams' first ex-wife, Shelly, revealed the news during a live stream on "Real Coffee with Scott Adams."

We broke the story ... Shelly told us just yesterday that Scott entered hospice and was receiving end-of-life care amid his rapidly declining health. She said nurses were going in and out of the home while she, her daughter and her sister were providing care as well.

Scott even recorded a podcast episode during which he acknowledged it may be his last ever ... which feels even more poignant now given his passing.

Scott was 68.

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I never found Dilbert funny as a kid, but when I got my first office job out of college, my mom gave me one of the desk calendars and has continued to do so every year once it was obvious I now got the joke.
That dude gave people a way to laugh at the mundane, inefficient, competent in spite of itself nightmare that is life deep within the bureaucracy of the American corporation, and that's a gift.
 
Poor guy, rough way to go.
I had many a dilbert cartoon on my wagie cubicle when I left the lab and joined corporate hell world. Thanks for all the laughs.
 
Damn shame. Genuine life success from cartooning has got to be a rare thing and he deserved it more than most.

I'd dig through his work to find the most appropriate strip for this but there are too many.

Cremate his body at 86 degrees in the office duct-work.
 
Absolutego said:
I never found Dilbert funny as a kid, but when I got my first office job out of college, my mom gave me one of the desk calendars and has continued to do so every year once it was obvious I now got the joke.
That dude gave people a way to laugh at the mundane, inefficient, competent in spite of itself nightmare that is life deep within the bureaucracy of the American corporation, and that's a gift.
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He understood corporate lifestyle BS but fell victim to being terminally ill on the social media hellscape. Pretty tragic on top of the cancer.
 
theeviloneisyou said:
Sucks for him and his loved ones, but I can’t feel much sympathy for a man who let his stepson kill himself with drugs because he thought he would become a mass shooter and admitted to such on social media.
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He only Chudded out a couple years before his death. Much like Trump himself he spent the majority of his career as a 90s or moderate Democrat or whatever you want to call it.
 
theeviloneisyou said:
Sucks for him and his loved ones, but I can’t feel much sympathy for a man who let his stepson kill himself with drugs because he thought he would become a mass shooter and admitted to such on social media.
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I found these tweets incoherent at the time, and honestly, still do. I really can't even tell what he's trying to say there.
 
All right KF, let’s settle this, which one came first:

Ranch
or
Cool ranch
 
deleuzeon said:
I found these tweets incoherent at the time, and honestly, still do. I really can't even tell what he's trying to say there.
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"There are no other options. You either have to murder your own son or watch him die and maybe kill others."

Seems pretty clear to me.
 
deleuzeon said:
I found these tweets incoherent at the time, and honestly, still do. I really can't even tell what he's trying to say there.
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Grief is often incoherent. I read a lot of rationalizations that his son, deeply lost in addiction and probably nursing a lot of anger at the world around him, was destined for an early death. That there was no scenario where enough love and support could've brought him out of it and, therefore, Scott feels justified in not giving more than he gave because, this way, he didn't poke the bear enough that his son lashed out and killed a lot of people on his way out.
It really just comes across as sad. Coping that your stepson's fate was inevitable, and that doing anything more to prevent it would only have made matters worse. Like a lot of rationalizations, it's rooted a bit in truth; people on some level always have to choose to change their lives themselves. Not by themselves, mind you, but they have to buy in to making changes.
 
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