A chart means more than any word or long paragraph so let's firstly dive into above chart which was graphed by Jameson Lopp.
He made it with input data from
Bitcoin Obituaries.
This summary chart presents a fact that less people wanted to call "Bitcoin is dead" with time. It is an unofficial recognition for survival of Bitcoin.
There is another website for "Bitcoin is dead" chart is
Buybitcoinworldwide.com but the team behind it stopped updating the chart recent months.
I have never really understood people's preemptive panic about being Bitcoin being dead every single time there is a huge
dump correction. Sure I can understand the fear and uncertainty that people feel, especially those who are new to Bitcoin, but I still would never assume something just because someone else said it or because I have a "gut feeling".
Without an objective proof, there is no point in saying or believing that Bitcoin is dead. That is to say: there is absolutely nothing that this rumor is based on. (If you can even call it a rumor in the first place...)