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apparently so!
She does the only thing she can to stop it from spreading: she hurls herself into the fiery prison furnace, taking the last remaining alien down with her. She has led, as far as we can tell, a blameless life (she is without sin), she has forgiven those who sinned against her (androids, rapist prisoners), and so the redemption arc in the film is not on her behalf, but ours. In this final act of self-sacrifice, she has redeemed the sins of mankind, as embodied by the greed and indifference to human/synthetic life of the Company. She has proven mankind worthy of not being destroyed by their creators, who first sowed the seeds of human life through a similar act of self-sacrifice. It's telling that the next film, although not very good, begins with her resurrection. Prometheus completed the saga's reconfiguration into a re-telling of the Christ narrative.
A young girl, named Newt. They form a bond in the midst of their ordeal, and towards the end, Ripley once again makes the decision to risk life and limb to save an innocent life, before leaving behind the soon-to-be-vaporized, alien-infested planet. She not only made a heroic struggle for the sake of destroying a deadly parasite, she learns the value of non-human life, as well, in the person of Bishop (you'll recall that David seems to seethe with resentment at the fact that human beings have created him, seemingly just because they could, and see him as a soul-less inferior...which of course, contributed to the creation of the aliens, in the first place!). Ripley and the other survivors go to sleep in their cryotubes and it seems everything has worked out for the best. Not so, in the Alien universe. A facehugger was left behind on Marine's ship, and it has caused an electrical fire that causes the ship to shoot out the survivors' cryotubes in an EEV. She crash lands on a prison planet and once again finds that everyone she knows and loves has died. She then makes the difficult decision to help the religious fundamentalist prisoners fight and defeat an alien (despite the fact that a few of them tried to rape her). Ripley could easily walk away and wait to be rescued. But she knows this decision will put the fate of the alien in the hands of the greedy Company and that would be a threat to all of humanity. So they kill the beast, but the nightmare isn't over, because she has one gestating inside of her, a Queen. There is no other option for her - she must sacrifice herself to preserve humanity. The creator of Bishop tries to tempt her with the promise of a normal life again, just as Satan tempted Christ in the wilderness (the creator played by Lance Henrikson, who also played a character named John Milton!). But Ripley does not succumb to temptation; she knows if she allows herself to be operated on, the Company will keep the alien and spread its Evil.
I like it so far. This feels like a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Except Freddy never shows up, and its just follows the teens through their various dramas (Tony in particular makes me think of Rod in part one).