Changing a bit maybe, but dying, no, I don't think so. Halloween is always in a state of change from one decade to the next ( I'm almost 50 now, and the Halloween of my childhood was radically different that of today). The neighborhood's of yesterday operated on the 'Cheers' mentality, everybody knew your name, todays communities are really nothing more than a bunch of strangers living in close proximity to one another, and frankly, wer'e scared ****less of one another. When I was young, we did'nt fear sexual deviants, terrorists, drug dealers, or murders, they just did'nt exist (at least to our knowledge at that age), the scariest neighbor you had was the weird old lady at the end of the road. Today, thanks in part to the information age, we feel that monsters lurk behind every door but our own, so less and less people venture out on Halloween. Add that to the church's new found drive to "purge the great evil of Halloween" (funny, they always used to run the best haunted houses), and the media reminding parents to check for razors and poison in your babys TOT bag (all myths, to one degree or another) and you are seeing a new phase of our favorite holiday. Fear not, however, with folks like us, it may become re-defined, but die? NO F'n WAY!