Maybe the answer is easy to find but I'm trying.
In Dangerous Liaisons, Esther with a binding spell and Finn's help, wants to kill her children. As we know, the spell is broken and only Finn dies. That's how we learn when an original vampire dies their entire bloodline dies too.
So my question is, did Esther know that if one of her children died, the bloodline would die too?
Because, she's a powerful witch and she's the one who turned her kids into vampires, so how could she not know ? And if she knew, she really trick Elena by asking her to help.