The numbers were gone as fast as they came because...... you guessed it, the hype that it was going to be BC. It wasn't.
dy·ing
ˈdīiNG/
adjective
adjective: dying
on the point of death.
"he visited his dying mother"
synonyms: terminally ill, at death's door, on one's deathbed, near death, fading fast, expiring, moribund, not long for this world, in extremis; More
informalon one's last legs, having one foot in the grave
"his dying aunt"
occurring at or connected with the time that someone dies.
"he strained to catch her dying words"
synonyms: final, last; deathbed
"her dying words"
antonyms: first
gradually ceasing to exist or function; in decline and about to disappear.
"stone-cutting is a dying art"
synonyms: declining, vanishing, fading, ebbing, waning; informalon the way out
"a dying art form"
antonyms: thriving