Teaching hungry kids for the rest of her life? Locked forever in that lab, with no hope to ever meet another human, no hope to ever leave her prison. Oh yeah that sounds like a bright future worth to live for...
That's a rather pessimistic and selfish way of looking at that situation.
Let's assume she's the last "human" alive, except for her there are only the hungry kids from the base and the feral hungry kids. If she just off's herself there all that remains of humanity will be
gone. Over time the remaining kids would probably also just turn feral because nobody would be there to teach them, show them a way to keep their humanity intact, losing what little humanity was left in them up to that point.
Why do that? When she instead can "hand over the torch" to these kids by teaching them about our human society, our human values, our history, what it means to be human? Thus humanity would live on trough these kids.
Just because these kids are not "100% pure human" from a biological perspective, does not mean that they are any "less" in their potential for human behavior, as Melanie has proven again and again.
Instead of seeing this as "the end" it can just as well be interpreted as a new beginning, these kids have basically become "transhuman", the next step in human evolution. Not breathing for 1000 seconds? Enhanced senses like smelling? Probably immunities against all kinds of diseases, from a physiological perspective these kids are a basically a "step" above us regular ass humans.
That's why it would be important to teach them about humanity because it's not our biology that makes us human, it's our values, our culture and a myriad of other things that don't boil down to mere biology.
In that regard the movie is a real masterpiece, it questions what makes us actually "human" and it manages to do so without being too pretentious, obscure or "in your face" about it.
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