Death Batman was killed by Darkseid s Omega Beam in Final Crisis 6 It should also be noted that Batman actually killed Darkseid as well by firing a god bullet at him Batman is not dead the body of Bruce Wayne has been destroyed however he is still alive somewhere Someone should really add this it seems important The process of turning a live body into a corpse is called death Reincarnation or preincarnation in this case in some other form still means the one in question died But the Omega Beam does not kill What happened here is that Batman broke his rule became evil so had to kill himself At least in the story it s implied that Batman s gone into hiding if you read closely Morrison said that Bruce Wayne isn t necessarily gone so it doesn t quite work out as Bruce being dead Therefore Batman is not dead We ll have to wait until summer to see for sure because that is the release of the next comic book in that particular series in our Batman sub universe within DCU Personally I think DC writers need to stop watching English American soaps for plot ideas I am quite done with the recent spate of tripe and Smell the Fart acting Its a poor reaction of Marvel s Death of Cap America Civil War storyline Sorry accidentally bumped against my Dismay o Meter turning it on for a moment Yeah it s a trifle annoying I really think that ending Batman is stupid and shouldn t be done The legacy lives