Have you ever supported, bought or mined a coin that died later on? Why did you support it? What did you learn from it?
On all the years i do involved in crypto this thing cant really be avoided which we can able to purchase coins without even expecting that it would die inspite on having a very good white paper? Its possibe anytime when developer itself into that project would leave it and jump into another one. This scenario is common. Supporting it on the very first place would have lots of factors where we do base. Either with our own knowledge or being influenced by fellow investors.