Chen Shiang-chyi and the Ending

I have just rewatched The Wayward Cloud, and I am still not sure what exactly is going on in the film's final moments. Chen Shiang-chyi's arms slowly and limply fall to her sides--- certainly an unsettling scene, but are we to suppose that she has actually suffocated to death? Or should we take this simply as a sad image of complete surrender?

I have searched all over the internet to try to see whether anyone has said explicitly whether they think Chen Shiang-chyi suffocates to death or not, but just about no-one else, in their discussion of the ending, seems to have suggested that she dies. I wonder if this means that such a reading of the scene is a ridiculous and extravagant one. (In a way, I somewhat that is the case... to me at least, What Time Is It There? has unfortunately never felt quite the same since I considered the possibility that the character will go on to die in such a humiliating manner).

What do people on here think? Of course, it's quite possible that Tsai is being deliberately ambiguous here, but I wonder if this is one instance where we can rule out this one possibility (that is, the possibility of "death by suffocation").