It appears her personal Dorian Gray portrait was finished and she then viewed it. To say that she did this to herself is true but it doesn't mean I wish that it had never happened to such as her.
And yes still fugly, but, people start down this path thinking it will never happen to them but once swallowed by the whale that is their own ego, it is difficult to free yourself.
In order for her life to be in any way analogous to
The Picture of Dorian Gray she would have had to have been meretricious, morally-bankrupt, and cruel. However, she was never aesthetically pleasing and she always came across as someone good-natured but not very bright - so your comparison fails.
Also, when you say that " it doesn't mean I wish that it had never happened", are you saying that you're glad she died? And when you say "to such as her", do you simply just mean "to her"? I'm confused! I don't know if you're trying to say that she was ultimately responsible for her ill-health, so you're glad that premature death awaits people like her? Or if you mean that she did this to herself, but that doesn't mean that you would wish this (death) to happen to her?
Please clarify these points, 'The Scott'. Many of us at Getbig view your clear, classical prose as a welcome respite from the unintelligible babble that we are usually subjected to, so these paragrammatic errors are quite upsetting.
