What should be done by a mother in such situation??

I don't know if anyone has read Freda Warington's "Return of Drakula". The book is in the horror category. But since reading the book, one thing has been spinning in my head, "Mina Harker's personality. What should have been done to protect her own integrity or to bear the cruel death of her young son in front of her own eyes." It seems to me that her integrity is something big, and how a mother can endure the brutal death of her son in front of her eyes. Mina Harker but the last surrendered herself to Dracula. Although it is forced. This is the story. Is there any mother who faced this situation in real life? What that mother decided then, and who we are and how we took it in our society, is also a good measure of how far we have been able to expand our vision.