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I don't think ASL will ever die. Even if technology advances and makes deafness "obsolete", some people have deafness in their family for generations and might choose to not use the technology. Also, not everyone will afford the technology, so there will always be those "poor" (financially) deaf people who can't get the CIs, BAHAs, etc. And like Angel said ASL is used with people who have other mental/verbal/processing disorders. So no, at least as long as I am alive, and people like me who love ASL (even hearing people) and think it's more natural for us than English speaking, ASL will never go away.
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