History Main / DyingAlone

* One of the most defining moments in ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' is the death of Yang Wenli, who was shot and bled to death in an empty hallway with neither friend nor foe to either help him or finish him off.

* One of the many side effects of strict lockdown policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: many people who died (whether from the disease itself or from unrelated causes) could not spend their last moments with loved ones. It even extended after death; a funeral would draw too large of a crowd and was thus forbidden.

* And the page image's twin, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover) Opportunity Rover]], was officially declared dead [[https://abc7chicago.com/science/my-battery-is-low-and-its-getting-dark-opportunitys-last-message-to-scientists/5137455/ on February 13, 2019]], roughly ''15 years'' after it had made landfall on Mars, and almost 9 years after ''Spirit'' died. Its last message, though translated into something a bit more fanciful than the diagnostic data read-out it was delivered on, is often read as "[[ItsSoCold My battery is low and it's getting dark.]]" But while she may have died alone, she didn't die unloved; NASA's final farewell to "[[AffectionateNickname Oppy]]" was to play her Music/BillieHoliday's "I'll Be Seeing You", and the whole world paid tribute to the "little rover that could."

* And the page image's twin, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover) Opportunity Rover]], was officially declared dead [[https://abc7chicago.com/science/my-battery-is-low-and-its-getting-dark-opportunitys-last-message-to-scientists/5137455/ on February 13, 2019]], roughly ''15 years'' after it had made landfall on Mars, and almost 9 years after ''Spirit'' died. Its last message: "My battery is low and it's getting dark." But while she may have died alone, she didn't die unloved; NASA's final farewell to "[[AffectionateNickname Oppy]]" was to play her Music/BillieHoliday's "I'll Be Seeing You", and the whole world paid tribute to the "little rover that could."

** The Seventh Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie met his end]] with no familiar faces at his side.

* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. As Billy Russo is bleeding out, he places a phone call to [[WeUsedToBeFriends Curtis]] asking him to come and be with him so he won't die alone. Curtis sends Frank Castle instead, who wordlessly puts a [[CoupDeGrace couple of bullets]] into Billy as [[KilledMidSentence he's trying to apologize for his evil deeds]].
* In ''Series/RobinHood'', Robin himself dies alone after bidding goodbye to his friends and wandering into Sherwood Forest by himself. He is apparently met by the spirit of Marian as he dies, but this could be a hallucination brought on by the poison in his system. Somewhat of a subversion considering Robin ''chooses'' to die alone, specifically telling the others "I have to do this alone."

* "W" by Music/VanDerGraafGenerator.

* According to Literature/TheBible, this is what happened to Jesus at his death. Not only is he betrayed by one of his disciples, but the others -- who truly respect him -- are unable to be with him as he enters his final hours. As he is praying in preparation for his eventual fate, the three disciples who he takes to wait with him fall asleep. Peter, one of his closest followers, denies he even knew Jesus in order to save his own skin. The whole atmosphere of alienation is a contrast to the traditional pictures of a triumphant Messiah entering into glory. The worst of it? This abandonment by those nearest to him was a ''necessary'' part of his unglamorous death. No wonder even Jesus was apprehensive of what his end would entail.
** Moses dies alone as well. "Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land...And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him[a] in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is." (Deut 34:1-6)

* Used for dark comedy in ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' when Johnny, suicidally depressed from not being able to buy a slushie, tries to take the convenience store clerk with him in a murder/suicide so he won't have to die alone. Johnny kills the clerk first using a gun and turns it on himself... At which point his ContractualImmortality kicks in and he finds out the gun only has one bullet. And then [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny his ADD kicks in]] before he can find something else to off himself with.

* In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2011 Supergirl vol. 6]]'' #23, Cyborg Superman is stealing ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s flesh. As she -temporarily- dies, Kara cries she doesn't want to die alone.
-->'''Supergirl:''' Please, I don't want to die. Not like this. I don't want to die alone.
* Many deaths in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' reflect this but John Hartigan has the most gut-wrenching as he has to commit suicide alone in the woods so "a young girl can live".

* [[VainSorceress Sistah Spooky]] from ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' ended up in this position near the end of vol. 8. She is literally in Hell, seriously wounded, short an arm, staring down an artillery-sized death ray, all alone... and she is ''happy''. The love of her life is ''not'' suffering the Torments of the Damned, the woman whose life she helped wreck out of petty jealousy is [[ItMakesSenseInContext tied up aboard a doomsday weapon auto-piloting itself to Earth]], this is as good a death as she could hope for a better outcome than she thought she would get... then someone who would rather not be forced to leave someone to die ''[[MyGreatestFailure again]]'' comes [[BigDamnHeroes riding a doomsday weapon to the rescue]].
* The Executioner was a fairly minor {{Jerkass}} {{Dragon}} figure in ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'''s continuity -- until Creator/WaltSimonson gave him the heroic version of this trope, [[YouShallNotPass standing off the entire army of the Asgardian underworld]] in an awesome moment.
* Subverted in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine''. Superman has been infected with a rare fatal disease, and he cannot find any cure. But he does not want his family and friends to see him pass away, so he decides to go to some remote uninhabited place where he can die alone.

* Simon Laurent in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' dies alone, just like in [[WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain the show]]. [[spoiler:However, this time, he dies after turning into Destruction, and is pulled into Toluca Lake, screaming that he is the true Apex, drowning with the only person to have ever cared helpless and numb in shock at what she caused.]]

** After betraying the Free Zone Committee and murdering Nick Andros and Sue Stern, Harold escapes with Nadine only to hit a pothole and crash. Once he gets back to his bike, he writes a letter of apology to the Free Zone and then [[AteHisGun puts his gun in his mouth]].

** In the finale, Jack prepares to die alone, having saved all of his friends...and then Vincent comes into the clearing and lies down beside him as he dies. One word: [[TearJerker Jears]].

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', what makes the death of Saji's older sister, Kinue Crossroads [[TearJerker even sadder than it already is]] is that she bleeds to death completely alone in an alley, attempting to use a broken cellphone to call for help, weakly calling out to her loved ones with her dying breath. Also, the first Lockon Stratos, Neil Dylandy died alone... InSpace.

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** Parodied by ''Website/SFDebris'' who changes Kirk's line to "Or with a bald Frenchman. Which is basically the same thing if he's a waiter."

*** Shatner, who directed the film, went into greater detail in his Kirk novels.
** Because everyone present assumed Kirk was killed when he first encountered the Nexus Ribbon, for decades all Kirk's friends believed he ''had'' died alone -- until Picard found him alive in the Nexus.

* In Volume 8 of ''WebAnimation/RWBY'', [[spoiler:General Ironwood]]'s [[FallenHero actions]] slowly but surely drive away everyone who ever stood by his side, leaving him to die alone, [[spoiler:crushed beneath the kingdom he revered]].

* Simon Laurent in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' dies alone, just like in [[WesternAnimaion/InfinityTrain the show]]. [[spoiler:However, this time, he dies after turning into Destruction, and is pulled into Toluca Lake, screaming that he is the true Apex, drowning with the only person to have ever cared helpless and numb in shock at what she caused.]]

* In the final episode of ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walt manages to ensure the last of his money goes to his estranged family, pays a final visit to his wife to make amends, and takes deadly revenge against those who wronged him, while saving his former partner [[TakingTheBullet at the cost of his own life]]. After Jesse denies him the MercyKill he requested and leaves, he ends up dying this way: bleeding out in the middle of a meth lab while waiting for the police to come.

--->'''The Doctor:''' I don't want to go...

* Cally's first words in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' are "May you die alone, and silent." She's an alien telepath who is the SoleSurvivor on a planet whose resistance force was wiped out by biological weapons. For a telepath, loneliness is a FateWorseThanDeath and Cally intends to commit SuicideByCop so she'll at least have some "companions for her death". She becomes one of the Seven instead but suffers from constant loneliness as none of them are telepaths like her.

* In ''Literature/WatershipDown'', this is subverted, as rabbits will usually vanish before dying, so they can die alone.

* On ''Series/TheDeuce'' Mike is dying of AIDS and chooses to spend his remaining days outside the city in a cabin in the woods. He is regularly visited by his friend Vince but he declines Vince's offer to stay with him in the cabin as a caregiver. One day Vince comes down to visit and finds that Mike died a few days earlier. It is implied that Mike prefered dying alone.

* [[HeroicSacrifice Kratos' ultimate fate]] in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII''. [[SubvertedTrope Until he came back in]] ''VideoGame/GodOfWorPS4''.

* While subverted in that it doesn't actually happen in ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Chaos Theory'' when Sam is asked a question, he replies "we all die alone."
* The player character of nearly every game in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is heavily implied to die alone. The Vault Dweller of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' has it particularly bad, he is implied in the original game to wander the wastes alone forever. In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' you find out he did have a family (including you) but his wife died before him and he felt he had the leave the village so others could take his place as an elder. He wandered off into the waste alone again, this time as a frail old man with his life behind him. Ironically, The Lone Wander in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' averts this and will either die with a close friend nearby (if Broken Steel isn't installed) or is shown to walk into the wastes with his loyal dog.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] near the end of the game by [[TheDragon Dickson]]. After being mortally wounded by Shulk, Dickson stops fighting and sends the heroes to Zanza's location, as he doesn't want to give them the satisfaction of watching him die.
-->"''Damn...how did that kid get so strong? I ain't gonna let you see me die...I won't give you the satisfaction of victory. See ya, kid...it looks like the student has finally surpassed the teacher.''"