When the executioner approaches, I shall kill myself.

I commit this crime against myself, Cambyses, to save you from doing a disgraceful deed." This note and her mother's she gave to the weeping Mandane, and begged her to give both to Cambyses when she was gone.

She then fell on her knees and prayed to the gods of her fathers to forgive her for her apostasy from them.
Mandane begged her to remember her weakness and take some rest, but she answered: "I do not need any sleep, because, you know, I have such little waking-time still left me." As she went on praying and singing her old Egyptian hymns, her heart returned more and more to the gods of her fathers, whom she had denied after such a short struggle.

In almost all the prayers with which she was acquainted, there was a reference to the life after death.

In the nether world, the kingdom of Osiris, where the forty-two judges of the dead pronounce sentence on the worth of the soul after it has been weighed by the goddess of truth and Thoth, who holds the office of writer in heaven, she could hope to meet her dear ones again, but only in case her unjustified soul were not obliged to enter on the career of transmigration through the bodies of different animals, and her body, to whom the soul had been entrusted, remained in a state of preservation.
This, "if" filled her with a feverish restlessness.