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Once the communication system is shutting down, it's too late to publish a message reliably via the communication system. You will want to design your system to communicate prior to shutting down the node.
A simple analogy to this is that you want to say goodbye after someone has hung up the phone. It's not going to work well. You want to have an expected exchange prior to hanging up the phone.