Article continues below advertisementEric Dane knew he didn't have much time left when he announced his ALS diagnosis in April 2025, but that didn't stop him from doing all he could to raise awareness for the fatal disease before he died at age 53 on Thursday, February 19."It's unfortunately the same story when I hear from people," he said in an October 2025 interview, which marked one of his last. "It's like, 'I lost my father, mother, cousin, brother, friend.' It's never, 'My father, mother, cousin, brother, friend has been living with it for 10 years now.