I happened to click on a link to a podcast discussion Scott Adams had with Dr. Drew Pinsky, of bygone MTV fame, and Greg Gutfeld, who appears to now be the king of late-night TV. Greg, at the Huffington Post a thousand years ago, would parody the left not in his posts but by constantly changing his bio. Back then, HPo was supposed to be an experiment in the left and right coming together — pretty sure Greg’s bios weren’t quite what Arianna had in mind.

That was a trip down memory lane. Which is what Adams took on Sunday’s podcast.

The cartoonist remembered how, early this summer, he was going to “end [his] situation.” He has cancer and had chosen a day on which he would end his life. He wanted to get through a family wedding first, and then it would be time. During an unrelated exchange about the dying process, the Dilbert creator remembered how all he had to do was pick up the prescription from his pharmacy. In his mind, it was going to be relatively simple — and quick. It was only “long after he committed to the process” that Adams realized it would be more complicated than is suggested by People magazine profiles and by campaigns to mainstream assisted suicide. If you don’t vomit the poison, it might “put you to sleep,” starting a process that could “take hours” and require your family to check in on you until you eventually die.

Pinsky had previously, in another context, described this dying process as “drowning.”

Judging by his daily podcast, it seems that Dilbert’s dad is thriving and is perhaps relieved that his loved ones didn’t have to watch him kill himself by doctor’s prescription. Thanks be to God that he lives to warn us that assisted suicide isn’t quite the quick fix to suffering that the former Hemlock Society (now the euphemistic Compassion & Choices) wants you to believe that it is.

Adams’s takeaway, as expressed to Pinsky and Gutfeld on Sunday: “It’s not as cool as I thought it was going to be.”