GMA showed a prerecorded interview with him this morning. It’s a really sad watch. Dane can no longer use his right arm. And he looks frail and weak.


Here is the interview. I know most here don’t like watching long YouTube videos in this forum, but it’s under 9 minutes and a really compelling watch.

He says he’s going to try to keep working. He’s currently on Euphoria. And he has a new Amazon show called Countdown coming up.

Ugh. Tough watch. ALS is so freaking scary. One of the worst lottery diseases you can win.

He has the right attitude.

I remember doing the ice bucket challenge all those years ago.

My father-in-law had a best friend, named Jim, who was diagnosed with ALS and we watched him slowly deteriorate over the course of 18 months. It was sad to watch but he never lost his smile and twinkle in his eye.

We later learned that the doctor that delivered our first two children, was diagnosed and worked until he could no longer "catch babies popping out." He died soon after the youngest of his eight children turned two.

It appears the ice bucket challenge is making a comeback. My daughter's best friend just did it. I definitely recognize him. Sad to see.

My mom died from it in 2006. Her first symptom was her legs giving out from under her out of the blue one day at work. She managed to get back up after a while, but she had no clue what was going on. The hospital did a complete MRI on her and didn't see anything. It wasn't until she had moved out to TX (where she was retiring) that a spinal tap finally figured out what was going on with her. She lived 18 months with it. She could have lived longer, but she didn't want to. Her way of checking out was to stop eating since she no longer had use of her hands and arms to grab the bottle of morphine she was prescribed for the pain.

She was totally paralyzed by the time she died. In her last couple of weeks, she could barely talk anymore. She was in a coma the last week before she died on Christmas night. It was her favorite holiday. She was determined to lived out her last one I guess.

So sorry about that. That is awful. A terrible nightmare for the person going through it and a terrible nightmare to watch a loved one go through it. RIP to your mother.

Thanks. My heart goes out to Eric and his family. Its a fucked up disease.

Update, sadly Dane passed away

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/eri...ntent=&utm_id=

I'm stunned at how fast his health deteriorated in the last 8 months. He goes from being able to speak in a full interview and still looking relatively stable to now being gone.

I've seen some people, including some actors like Kenny Mitchell, who died from ALS, still being alive for a few more years, but ending up in a wheelchair on a breathing tube.

Yeah that's crazy fast but apparently it hits everybody differently. RIP

That's too bad. Liked him on Last Ship and Countdown.

Its sad he died so fast but he didn't have to suffer for a long drawn out period of time. RiP

I just saw him in X-Men: The Last Stand. Fuck disease!

I had a relative that recently died from ALS. It was shocking how quickly it can progress. It's an ugly disease.

RIP

Salute to him and his role on The Last Ship. Great actor, great show.

Sad news.

I updated the thread title.

Very sad news.

He was so charismatic in that little throwaway cameo.

Exactly what I thought. ALS is a living nightmare. Just fucking awful.

And he was the same age as me. Scary shit.

I have a friend who got engaged last year and was planning a summer 2026 wedding. At the end of last year, her future husband was diagnosed with ALS. It is now expected (best case) that he will not survive beyond 2027.

If you don't want to watch his Netflix interview (but you should. He's present, articulate and thoughtful), these were his last words. And while it's to his daughters, it should resonate with anyone.

Saw his recent guest spot on Brilliant Minds. He played a firefighter battling ALS. It was very tough to watch as I knew that a lot of what they were portraying was what he was actually going through. Even though he couldn't move or speak very well, he gave a hell of a performance. I really enjoyed a lot of his performances.

Fuck. Powerful shit.

Even though he was in obvious decline in that Netflix video compared to the ABC News interview last summer, he was still very articulate. Man, just awful what that disease ultimately does to you. I’m glad he’s no longer suffering.

RIP He was a big 49ers fan and wish he was still around if they finally found a way to win a title.

Patrick Dempsey talks about Dane’s passing. He said Dane was bedridden and was losing his ability to talk