Does the captain of the Titanic deserve forgiveness?

The captain of the Titanic ignored repeated warnings and never decreased speed. Because of this, hundreds of people's lives were taken. It is so hard knowing one of your loved ones is gone and you will never get to see them again, but I can't imagine how he felt that night when all of those people drowned or froze to death and it being his fault. I know he caused so many people so much pain that night, but he had to live with the guilt until he also drowned. He ended up dying just like everyone else because he knew what he had done was wrong. I think this man deserves forgiveness because he had to die knowing what he had done and all the warnings he ignored were the reasons why hundreds of lives were taken. I think that's enough punishment.

Does this man have any right to pity?

This man may feel terrible for what he did, but he still took the lives of many innocent people.  Therefore, what he did was wrong and feel like he should have no right to pity and feel sorry for himself. In he passage the man says, "Look," he said, "those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as do-" So he is pretty much saying that he in the same situation they are except he is having to suffer because he has to live with the guilt. It is true that he has to die with the guilt of what he did, but hs a soldier that killed thousands of these Jews for no reason at all. The dying soldier also says, "I come from Stuttgart and I am now twenty-one. That is too soon to die. I have had very little out of life." By saying this, he appears a little bit selfish. When they were out killing all of the Jews did they think about their age? Or what they have gotten out of life? They didn't, so I think that he really has no reason to show pity towards himself especially after everything he's done to everybody else.