-If we're talking about people taking care of you prior to Death (literally meaning "physically there") & people use that term in response it's stupid. Most people I see use the term don't even grasp the depth you understand it to mean....The premise at the outset was terrible. The phrase “born alone, die alone “is not about whether people are physically there for you on your death bed, or whether your spouse and kids are there. It’s about the process of death - the deteriorating of your mental and physical faculties and coming to terms with your mortality. It’s a process people can sympathize with but only the dying are going through it....