what did captain scott die of?
Starvation
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 In 2007 , Scott had an appendectomy and learned that his appendix was cancerous . After going into remission , he was again diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and 2013 . Scott was honored at the ESPY Awards in 2014 with the Jimmy V Award for his fight against cancer , less than six months before his death in 2015 at the age of 49 . 

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 Scott is presumed to have died on 29 March 1912 , or possibly one day later . The positions of the bodies in the tent when it was discovered eight months later suggested that Scott was the last of the three to die . 

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 On the morning of January 4 , 2015 , Scott died of cancer in his home in Avon , Connecticut , at age 49 . 

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 Inconsistencies in the official accounts of Scott 's death have been cited in conspiracy theories , which suggest that Scott died of a heroin overdose , or was killed by exhaust fumes redirected into the car , or that Kinnear did not exist . Additionally , Scott was asthmatic , and the temperature was below freezing on the morning of his death . 

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 On 29 January 1916 , while reading in bed by candlelight , Markham set fire to the bedclothes and was overcome by smoke . He died the following day . His last diary entry , a few days earlier , had recorded a visit from Peter Markham Scott . 
