World 2 is not dead and won't die until the world is shutdown. There are still plenty of people playing daily and posting daily on the ingame board. World 2 is arguably more alive then some of the later worlds. W5,W6,W7 and now W8 are *almost* rendered obsolete by the new W9. Once world 1 is closed for joining world 2 will fill up next and so on and so on.
So until then I don't think it's fair to say any world is dead.