McCurdy was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2018. He filed a medical malpractice case against the Whittingham Cancer Center at Norwalk Hospital. in Norwalk, Connecticut. The suit argued that he was given improper chemotherapy treatment, receiving only 25 percent of the supposed dosage he should have been given of the drugs Fluorouracil and Mitomycin. With his age and compromised immune system, McCurdy became homebound in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. He died at age 68 on July 29, 2020, in Connecticut.
