Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: West nwụrụ na Los Angeles, California, na June 9, 2017, na-eso obere ọgụ na ọrịa leukemia. Mgbe ọ nwụsịrị, onye bụbu onye na-eme ihe nkiri Batman nke West na enyi ya ogologo oge, Burt Ward, wepụtara nkwupụta; "Nke a bụ ọnwụ na-atụghị anya ya nke enyi m ogologo ndụ m, aga m echefu ya ruo mgbe ebighi ebi. E nwere ọtụtụ ndị na-eme ihe nkiri magburu onwe ha bụ́ ndị kparala Batman n'ihe nkiri. N'anya m, e nwere nanị otu ezi Batman nke bụ ma bụrụkwa Adam West. Ọ bụ n'ezie Onyeisi Ndị Agha". Batman: The Animated Series actor Kevin Conroy (onye rụrụ n'akụkụ West na ihe nkiri "Beware the Gray Ghost") kwuru "Adam West bụ ezigbo onye omee, na-emesapụ aka. Ọ masịrị m iso ya rụọ ọrụ dị ka Gray Ghost. Ezigbo nwoke".Na June 15, 2017, Los Angeles gosipụtara Bat-Signal na City Hall dị ka ụtụ nye West, na Walla Walla na-enwu bat-akara na Whitman Tower. West buru ụzọ dekọọ ihe ise ọzọ dị ka Mayor Adam West wepụtara mgbe ọ nwụsịrị dị ka akụkụ nke oge iri na isii nke Family Guy. O dekwara ihe nkiri nke iri na otu nke Powerless, nke a na-agbasaghị n'ihi nkagbu nke ihe nkiri ahụ. NBC gosipụtara ihe omume ahụ n'ịntanetị mgbe West nwụsịrị. Ọdịdị ikpeazụ nke West bụ site na Machị ruo Eprel 2017 na SouthCoast Comic Con & Collectibles Extravaganza na Hanover, Massachusetts, ebe ọ bụ onye ọbịa nke nsọpụrụ, Fan Expo Dallas, na nke abụọ kwa afọ Silicon Valley Comic Con.  Ajụjụ: Ọrịa dị aṅaa kpatara ọnwụ dị mwute nke West?
ọrịa leukemia