Just as in the case of language death, so irrational, unfavorable attitudes towards vernacular, nonstandard varieties can lead to dialect death. This disturbing phenomenon is as much a part of the linguistic homogenization of the world- especially perhaps in Europe-as language death is. In many parts of the world, we are seeing less regional variation in language-less and less dialect variation.
There are specific reasons, particularly in the context of Europe, to feel anxious about the effects of dialect death. This is especially so since there are many people care a lot about language death but who couldn't care less about dialect death: in certain countries, the intelligentsia seem be actively in favour of dialect death