From a test pilot who obviously didn't subscribe to the "keep-flying-it-to-the-bitter-end" school of thought:
When it's all going horribly wrong and there's nothing else you can do, then unstrap, turn around, drop your trousers and sit on the cyclic. It won't help you, but it'll give the Accident Investigation Branch (or NTSB, or whoever you have in your neck of the woods) something to think about...