Editing Scatman Crothers (section)

==Death==
Around 1985, Crothers was diagnosed with an inoperable malignant tumor in his lung which [[metastasized]] to his esophagus. He was bedridden weeks before his death and had slipped into a coma. On November 22, 1986, Crothers died at age 76 at his home in [[Van Nuys, California]] after struggling with [[lung cancer]].<ref name="Cohen" /> He is buried at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="White">{{cite book |last1=White |first1=Robert |last2=White |first2=Phyllis |title=Hollywood and the Best of Los Angeles  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ySfgH36imU4C&pg=PA568 |access-date=11 December 2018 |date=1 March 2011 |publisher=Hunter Publishing |isbn=978-1-58843-286-5 |pages=568– }}</ref>