Unused but not Forgotten (On Living Latin)

In David Crystal's blog I read a fairly interesting article about how the latin language has been dying over time despite being the root language of spanish, italian, french, rumanian and many other languages and dialects that conform a vast percentage of usage in the world. I agree to what David Crystal says in this blog post about how you know when a language dies. He says "The distinction between life and death can be a bit fuzzy, when applied to language." This is true because a language is not like a person, that only depends if he/she has a heartbeat or not. It´s different with a language specially one that has been around for so many years and has made that much history. To define if a language is dead or not is very difficult because the process is very gradual so you cannot distinguish when it´s actually gone completely because there will always be the few last people that spread their knowledge.