People say it's dead because they don't understand it and every time they see a drop or bad news they think it's failing. No one knows if it will survive, but like any new technology, it can take a while to catch on.
Exactly, the ones who say such things are probably the ones who has no patience at all and if they see a price drop even a small one they start saying that the coin will now die but they don't think that it happens frequently but it recovers again but does not die so soon.
If only our trust with bitcoin is real, when we see a crisis we will always think that it is just a normal thing to happen. Bitcoin so far is the best currency and I do not understand why people are calling it dead, if they have a bad experience with bitcoin, they do not have to generalize it.