The recent surge in search interest for Eric Dane, with over 1 million searches, can primarily be attributed to the tragic news of his passing at the age of 53, following a battle with ALS. This news likely prompted fans and the general public to seek information about the actor and reflect on his career and contributions to the entertainment industry.
Moreover, Glamour’s article discussing Eric Dane as “the Most Sexualized Man in Hollywood” has also contributed to his visibility, potentially drawing attention to both his recent death and his legacy as a prominent figure in Hollywood. This coverage highlights his cultural impact and may have encouraged fans to revisit his work.
Additionally, Netflix has recognized Dane’s legacy through a feature encouraging viewers to celebrate his contributions by watching his series and films. This promotion is likely to have fueled additional interest, as fans take the opportunity to engage with his past performances in the wake of his passing. The combination of these articles and features may have collectively driven a heightened search volume surrounding Eric Dane.
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Absolutely devastating. He just got diagnosed a year ago right?
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It was about 10 months ago that he announced it. It does make me wonder how long he had been diagnosed for before announcing it publicly.
S
ALS can be devastatingly quick, or you can suffer for years while your body fails you.
N
It’s such a cruel disease. My grandmother passed away at 65 from ALS also less than one year from receiving a diagnosis. ETA: o my did not think this comment would get so much attention. Thank you for the kind words and so sorry for everyone else’s loss as well. ❤️
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My condolences. My best friend’s father has seen the deaths of three ALS support groups as he just keeps living. He’s constantly in pain, trapped in his body. It’s a terrible disease.
L
I have a similar but much less severe disease than ALS (a type of muscular dystrophy), but one of the hardest aspects is it doesn’t affect your mind at all. You still know what you should be able to do and you just can’t and it’s not like the next day it might be better.
R
Exactly what happened to my husband. His still beautiful mind was trapped in a body that couldn’t work and he couldn’t speak to tell us his thoughts. Towards the end he couldn’t even be entertained because it took too long to open new webpages or even turn on his audiobook with his eye gaze. It took absolutely everything that made life joyful for him. Fuck ALS
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I’m so sorry, my heart goes out to you.
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I’m so very sorry, that is heartbreaking
L
My godfather had a weird disease where his muscles got tighter and tighter bending his body backwards. It was devastating to see him go from a young man full of dreams and hopes to being in so much pain and eventually being bed bound as he couldn’t sit at all anymore. The doctors had given him 5 years, he managed 7 and passed away a week after my confirmation. His mom always said that seeing me get my confirmation kept him going as he had made a promise to my parents to be there for me should anything happen to them. I wish we had cures for all those diseases
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Watching someone outlive their support group like that is heartbreaking and terrifying.
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oh goodness, i am so sorry for him and his family.
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I think ALS is the most devastating disease anyone could be diagnosed with. Condolences to you and your family
K
My condolences. My dad also passed from ALS, was diagnosed in March and passed in July. It’s an awful disease, sending you love
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My mom went 16 months after diagnosis. It’s a brutal process dying from ALS.
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My grandmother also died from ALS. Hers was longer, but my God it’s a cruel disease. It seemed genuinely torturous and I was a child. She couldn’t even swallow. I don’t think I’d be able to let it kill me. I’d probably nope out when I was still capable. I hope we get a solution because GD it’s a messed up disease.
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A lady I know recently passed 3 months after her diagnosis. I am still in shock how fast it was.
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It’s just awful hey. I lost my best friend to it a few years ago. She was 43 and was gone about ten months after diagnosis. But she fell into the trap of ‘the Medical Medium’ and was convinced celery juice would heal her so she refused all medical treatment until she was super close to dying and by then it was far too late…
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Not to be a dick, but there’s nothing she could have done to change things for herself whether she went the woo woo route or not. ALS is 100 % fatal and progressive. You just get worse till you die. Progression rate seems to be the luck of the draw, and “treatments” are essentially supportive care and making people as comfortable as possible. It’s an absolutely terrifying disease. Truly hope we can make some kind of breakthrough on it, it’s crazy that we’re so helpless against it.
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My mother is 65 right now and she has had als dor 5 years now. Just had her tracheostomy and peg tube in december. It has been so so hard for me and my family. Ive been giving her all the love and care I can but its destroying me daily seeing her in pain and anxiety.
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I used to work in a Neuro ICU where we did trachs/PEGs on ALS patients, allowing them to live longer as they lost the ability to eat and breathe on their own. It was always good to be there for them, but not every case was so sad. One was a computer engineer in his 50’s who was able to continue coding and emailing colleagues using eye-tracking technology. Stephen Hawking got 55yr. It’s devastating, and it’s always the end, but it is possible to do it on your own terms.
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Because of Hawking, I assumed you could live for decades with ALS, but I later learned he was one of the rarest cases of the disease, and people who become ill, particularly those who are no longer young, die within 1-5 years of being diagnosed. It was shocking to me.
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A gentleman in my town was diagnosed in, I want to say, ‘03 or ‘04. Passed in ‘10. The whole town rallied around him. Devastating to watch him slowly wither away over the years. But it was amazing to see his strength. He’d roll into the packed gymnasium for his son’s basketball game and the whole place would cheer for him, knowing the strength it took for him to come out each day and still show up for his family.
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We had my uncle for almost 3 years, and my aunt (his sister) for less than a year. Fucking horrible disease.
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Yep. My brother is on year 10 from diagnosis and many more from first symptoms that were ignored by medical providers because he was in his 30’s!
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What symptoms?
R
A friend of mine was diagnosed in his early 20s. He knew something was off when he went to kick a soccer ball and couldn’t one day. He had been playing soccer his whole life. He passed away recently after a 10 year battle.
H
My husband was diagnosed with MS but before his final diagnosis ALS was a possibility. His first “something is really wrong” was when he went to go play hockey and he couldn’t stand on skates.
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it’s terrible the way people find out their symptoms based off the things they enjoy doing. My dad was diagnosed with ALS in 2006 and while recording my 6th grade graduation, he said his arm got tired while holding the video camera. This was really alarming to most of us because he was a huge 6’3 man who played basketball in his free time and loved taking the video camera everywhere to capture family memories. He had a fall later in the summer, and in November 2006 he was diagnosed with ALS and had an estimated 2-3 years to live at age 33. He passed in November 2009 at age 36. I’m turning 32 this year and one of my main passions is photography. I never take my abled body for granted and it would sadden me to never be able to hold a camera again.
R
such an awful, devastating disease to witness. The suffering it inflicts is terribly unfair. I’m so sorry 💙
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Even asking is a really dangerous path to go down if you’re an axious person because the early symptoms are so non-specific. I made the mistake of reading up on it a few years ago and ended up convinced I was dying. Took me months to shake off fully.
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Truth! When I started having fasciculations I panicked. His neurologist offered to do an EMG on me if they didn’t go away. Nice guy. Mine ended up being from dehydration. I did get the genetic panel testing done when it came out for no cost for family members, as we didn’t know if it was genetic or sporadic. Scariest test I’ve ever taken! Fortunately, I don’t carry any currently known genes for ALS and that started to calm my anxiety around it.
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Would you share the symptoms, if you don’t mind?
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You don’t want to know. The symptoms people list are completely benign the vast majority of the time. No point in worrying about it. There is a whole online community of people absolutely ruined with fear of having ALS. Source: had a symptom that I googled and it was a wild ride.
C
My stepdad passed after three years of suffering. ALS is so brutal.
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Yeah, my mom was diagnosed and they said we had a year. She passed away 2 months after the diagnosis.
K
My dad died from ALS in 9 months. In retrospect, I’m glad it was quick.
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Yeah if he had the bulbar onset ALS that affects speech, breathing, etc. I could see it being unfortunately quick. Who knows though maybe he just didn’t disclose it and had it longer than we knew.
C
My dad passed from it last year. He was diagnosed with it two months prior. It ain’t no joke. Sometimes it comes really, really quick.
R
I had a family friend who went from body builder lifting weights everyday to completely bed ridden and paralyzed in about 1 year. It’s tragic how quickly it takes people, and devastating for the entire family to watch and know there’s nothing you can do besides be their arms and legs. (This friend was only 45 in our case, just completely devastation)
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I don’t think he knew very long before it became public. He was on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard not long before the news came out, and he mentioned something along the lines of having a doctor’s appointment coming up for some weird symptoms. It was a very nonchalant comment, but I would imagine that was the very start. I remember just a few months later hearing the diagnosis.
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ALS IS REALLY QUICK. I HAVE HAD SEVERAL FRIENDS THAT HAVE HAD IT. Usually a year year and a half is all they got
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It can be really quick, but not for all. My brother is on his 10th year from diagnosis. More from first symptoms.
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It’s so vanishingly rare, the fact that you’ve had several friends with it makes you VERY unlucky. I’m so sorry.
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Diagnosis can be a lengthy process as well. My doctor told me it’s generally about 18 months from starting the process to confirming a diagnosis. They try as hard as they can to find anything else it can be before confirming ALS.
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If you’ve seen that recent show he was in (Countdown) which I believe started filming at the end of 2024, you can definitely see signs of it (always has one hand in his pocket, delivers certain lines very stiff/slowly). So imagine him/his family would have known as early as that.
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I read he met with many different doctors and specialists before he got a diagnosis. He could have had symptoms long before that.
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Fuck ALS. And fuck this Administration. That has cancelled promising research into this disease. *One* example. [I Worked To Cure ALS. Then Washington Shut Down the Project.](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/18/walt-harvard-research-funding-cuts/)
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This needs to be blasted on continuous repeat.
Additional Sources:
glamour.com – Eric Dane, the Most Sexualized Man in Hollywood
Netflix – Celebrate Eric Dane’s Legacy with These Series and Movies
