That interpretation of her words would have gotten him absolutely throttled, so it's quite a good thing that it wasn't conveyed to her. They had been fighting in a war, constantly running off to one battle zone or another, and she'd feared for all of them simply for that fact alone.

"Just because one survives doesn't mean they're alive." She was proof of that. This thing she's doing on this small backwater planet isn't living, it's merely existing. Surviving with no drive or purpose, no reason to get up each day other than necessity. This isn't life, and she's little more than a ghost of who she once was now.