Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-32363996-20170622215201/@comment-26397825-20170622215847

Pyrrha was actually dead before she got incinerated. You can here her choked breaths stop, see her body slump as her muscle control goes. There's a handful of seconds between her slumping and Cinder flash-firing her, and in the commentaries the scene has been discussed as "wanting to give Pyrrha some dignity in death", which is why she doesn't just flop to the ground but instead retains her half-sitting position while her shoulders drop, her back slumps and her choked, gasping breaths stop entirely.

She was dead before Cinder turned her to ash. She's not floating around in someone's mind.