People still keep saying that BTC is dead just because they are unsure of its price as they might feel they will see BTC at $200 or even $100 someday...
But that's never going to turn into reality for them, they are just trying to manipulate the markets thinking they will succeed with their plans...
Even if they see that price still bitcoin is not dead, as long as there is still a value of bitcoin it will never be called as dead. That is just an imagination of the people who are hallucinating maybe due to bad experience of bitcoin like investing in scam sites using bitcoin as a means of investment.