Eric Dane's Posthumous ALS Doc 'Ring Every Bell' Revealed
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- Eric Dane died Feb. 19, 2026, roughly ten months after revealing his April 2025 ALS diagnosis, and his advocacy work is now being posthumously featured in a documentary short titled Ring Every Bell.
- I AM ALS, the advocacy organization Dane partnered with, released a new clip from the film Wednesday, produced in collaboration with filmmaker Christopher Burke and aligned with ALS Awareness Month in May.
- Dane traveled to Washington, D.C. multiple times in fall 2025 to support reauthorization of ACT For ALS (Accelerating Critical Therapies for ALS), which was reintroduced to the House of Representatives earlier this week.
- In the released clip, Dane warns the bill "needs to get to the floor for reauthorization" and must be "fully funded" or patients dependent on investigational therapies "no longer have access to them."
- Before his death, Dane joined the Push for Progress campaign seeking $1 billion in federal funding for ALS research over three years, declaring "we're done accepting the status quo."
- The initiative launches alongside a national public service campaign featuring cast members from Grey's Anatomy and other Hollywood and ALS advocate voices.
Why it matters: ACT for ALS reauthorization directly governs access to investigational ALS therapies for patients nationwide, and Dane himself framed the fight in the film as an equity issue — those without privileged healthcare access depend on the bill's funding to reach treatments he himself received. With the legislation back in the House this week, the documentary lands at a literal inflection point in the policy he championed.
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