Equipoise, someone who’d rather die than “be a bother” does not have her faculties intact.
I once woke up to find my landlady lying in a puddle of her own blood: she’d been bleeding for 7 hours but hadn’t called for help because “she didn’t want to be a bother.” If I hadn’t needed a glass of water or had dismissed her low moans due to respect for her privacy, she would have died in less than one hour.