Viacoin is not dead...
When a wallet doesn't work(
Node list anyone??) and no known pools are claiming to be mining it(Except mining-dutch who has a block height way out of whack!), I'd say it is DEAD.
Here are some listening nodes to get you started:
addnode=136.144.207.246
addnode=112.74.45.139
addnode=47.90.245.73
addnode=47.91.77.232
addnode=47.89.189.197
addnode=67.43.1.184
addnode=91.206.16.214
addnode=[2a01:7c8:d001:1c1:5054:ff:feee:3e1a]
HTH