It is not smart to spend money in altcoins in bear markets with belief that they won't die.
If I want to invest in altcoins, I will wait for ending of bear market and a start of new bull market, so altcoins I invest in will have less risks to be death or abandoned.
That's what I've always wanted to tell people, investing in altcoins during a bear market is a vast, irreparable mistake. Many people even advise buying top coins but forget that they are also altcoins, and history has said that most altcoins will die or be replaced by newer altcoins when the bull market comes. The opportunity for old altcoins to go up is too low, see examples like LTC, EOS, and BCH...they are no longer profitable for us. In a bear market, focus only on bitcoin, altcoins are only suitable for the bull season and should sell all of them when the bear season comes.