I think its inevitable that LCN will die one day, probably in my lifetime. Perhaps the Five families may live on in some form or other but I doubt it. Not that i'm saying it will happen next year or twenty years from now. The Italian Mafia's are even facing a harsher climate these days than ever before but the Italian state has a long way to go in the fight against organized crime (that's when they bother fighting at all). That being said there are a core group of police, magistrate's etc dedicated to fighting organized crime which before the deaths of Falcone and Borsellino barely existed before.