Comment by Jake on XMLrm

@XMLrm it wasn't pride that was driving that decision. It was loss of purpose. She had lived for her duty and when that duty was taken she save a live void of purpose. Without purpose there is no hope. A good example of this was the battle of Britain. Soldiers hospitalized in asylums for shell shock and battle fatigue(now known as PTSD) voluntarily left the asylums and started working as ambulance drivers, firefighters, and rescue crews. Not saying they were magically cured, but up to that point many were bedridden or had chosen isolation. The German attack gave them something years of treatment had ignored. It gave them a mission with a sense of purpose. That is what people need to survive. People need a purpose. Look at people suffering from depression and ask them what their purpose is and most will either not have an answer or will have one that is not clear. Ask a happy person and they will have an answer generally.