I think exactly the opposite. Once we start to find it there will be an avalanche of life. It won't be a case of trying to find life, it will be case of where can we look and not find it. It may not be intelligent or as we now understand it, but I'm sure it will be prevalent throughout the known universe, possibly the unknown universe.
http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/phil...ien-life-say-top-scientists/article40856.html
Maybe but i do think that extinction is just around the corner!