If you haven't seen the movie you should stop reading here, unless you just don't care about the movie being spoiled for you. If you have seen the movie, continue reading below.
Okay, if you are still here I am going to assume you have already seen the movie. I saw online that there is a small conspiracy theory out there who think Bruce Wayne actually died at the end of the film because when he was talking to Alfred earlier Alfred said something like "I always imagined you at that diner being happy every time I went there". This whole theory is based on that single line but I don't think it holds up for multiple reasons:
1. It shows Alfred thinking about Bruce being at the restaurant in a flash back to when he actually did it once. He sees someone he thinks is Bruce and he turns around and it isn't him. It was more just wishful thinking that he would see him there then literally picturing him being there. Plus if Alfred thought Bruce was dead there wouldn't be much of a reason to picture him being there happy when he knows 100% that he died. He only pictured him being there when he was missing during his 20s because he didn't know what happened to him. Also at the end of the movie Bruce acknowledges seeing Alfred.
2. Alfred saw him there with Selina Kyle. There is no reason for him to picture Bruce with Selina Kyle since he didn't know they had developed any kind of romantic attachment at all. He didn't know anything about her except that she is a thief who robbed them. In the past when Alfred imagined Bruce with someone there it was just a random woman. Bruce just took Alfred's advice and moved on (which he was able to do because Alfred told him the truth about burning Rachel's letter).
3. James Gordon finds a new Bat signal on top of the roof. He seems surprised to see it there. Who else would have put a new Bat signal on the rood other then Bruce Wayne? He was letting Gordon know he lived, just as he did with everyone at his funeral.
4. Lucius Fox, who had the wreckage from the Bat, was told that the auto pilot had been repaired 6 months ago. He gives a little smile acknowledging he knew Bruce was alive. During the scene where Batman is in the Bat flying the bomb away, it shows him still inside, then cuts to far away and shows it fly for a while before it blows up. Bruce had plenty of time to escape and fly away with his glider cape. He survived the same way everyone else in Gotham did, by not being in the blast. I think he actually left right before the Bat started going over the water.
5. John Blake is left directions to the Batcave, obviously left to him by Bruce Wayne. Not to mention Bruce's will which left everything to various people and his Mom's pearls were missing (because Bruce gave them to Selina).
6. They had the wreckage from the Bat. There was no body (remains of a body) or batsuit in there. It was completely empty because he escaped.
7. Alfred tells Bruce the truth about Rachel so that he can move on. Bruce dying for no reason when he could have simply ejected himself doesn't make sense. The whole point of Alfred's sacrifice is that he knows it will give Bruce a chance at moving on from his past. Plus Bruce isn't a moron, why would he sit there and die when he had repaired the autopilot.
If Bruce Wayne had actually of died there would have been no reason to show everyone who had been at his funeral receiving a sign that he was still alive. And again, it's based on one line from Alfred earlier in the movie that was literally shown in flash back. He would just see people who reminded him of Bruce, not literally picture him being there with some person who is a criminal as far as he knows.
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