Editing Stiv Bators (section)

== Death ==
On June 4, 1990, Bators died in Paris after being hit by a car.<ref name="nyt_obit">{{cite news|title=Stiv Bators, 40, Singer With Dead Boys Band|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/06/obituaries/stiv-bators-40-singer-with-dead-boys-band.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220823080116/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/06/obituaries/stiv-bators-40-singer-with-dead-boys-band.html|archive-date=August 23, 2022|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 6, 1990|page = D23|url-access = limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.davesfunstuff.com/b-todayinhistory/error404.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102135400/http://today.davesfunstuff.com/300/300d0604.htm|url-status=dead|title=Welcome|archive-date=January 2, 2011|website=Davesfunstuff.com|access-date=June 21, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hiljaiset.sci.fi/punknet/bators_e.htm |title=Hiljaiset Levyt: PUNKNET 77 – Stiv Bators |publisher=Hiljaiset.sci.fi |access-date=July 26, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304145740/http://www.hiljaiset.sci.fi/punknet/bators_e.htm |archive-date=March 4, 2012 }}</ref> He was on his motorbike when a car hit him and knocked him off the vehicle. He did not believe he was seriously injured, and returned to his apartment, where he died in his sleep as the result of a [[traumatic brain injury]] at the age of 40.<ref name="simmonds">{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches|year=2008|publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=978-1-55652-754-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMBf3TYZigQC&q=stiv+bators+ashes&pg=PA259|first=Jeremy |last=Simmonds|access-date=October 28, 2010|page=259}}</ref> He was survived by his parents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pleasekillme.com/looking-for-stiv-bators/|title=LOOKING FOR STIV BATORS|first=Eric|last=Davidson|date=March 25, 2019|website=PleaseKillMe.com|access-date=June 21, 2021}}</ref>

Dave Tregunna said that Bators, a fan of [[Jim Morrison]], had earlier requested that his ashes be spread over Morrison's [[Jim Morrison#Grave site|Paris grave]] and his girlfriend complied.<ref name="simmonds" />

In the director's commentary of the film [[Polyester (film)|''Polyester'']], in which Bators had a small role, director/producer [[John Waters]] stated that Bators' girlfriend, Caroline Warren, confessed to him that she snorted a portion of Stiv's ashes so that she could be closer to him.<ref>{{cite book|title=Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk|year=2006|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Inc.|isbn=978-0-8021-4264-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkG7Y6_J7pUC&q=stiv%20bators%20ashes%20snorted&pg=PA426|author=Legs McNeil|author2=Gillian McCain |access-date=October 28, 2010|page=426}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with John Waters about his new book Role Models|url=http://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/06/08/interview-with-john-waters/|publisher=Dog Canyon Magazine|access-date=October 28, 2010|author=Steve Birmingham|date=June 8, 2010}}</ref>