Can't fade out particle for some reason

[LearningVFX]

Hi, I tried building a spawn effect with the help of a Youtube tutorial. However, I would like to fade out certain particles at the end of the loop which is not done in the tutorial. I tried doing so by using Scale Color and scaling down the alpha. It works when fading in the bottom ring, but not when fading out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeu688Nl1Vs

It seems to work for the first 6 dots that appear, but not for the last three even though i just copy-pasted the emitter…

This is my material + scale color

Thanks in advance for any help
Lukas

[Niels]

Normalized age represents the age of the particle over it’s total lifetime, so it only goes to 1.
You’re curve fades out right before 2 so the particle has long died by that point.

[LearningVFX]

Oh okay, thank you so much! Really appreciate your help!