Ok, that's a good story. Which company is this?

(mine is ww.com/camarades.com, still alive even today).

I'm reading that as that she saw the end was inevitable, this could of course be wrong but it is quite ok to take some time out to think this over if you are that far down.

Better to take a breather and then to come out whole and composed than to break down during the winding up phase of the failure.

Failure, real, visible failure can be very taxing on the system.

My way of dealing with that is to avoid it at all costs ;)