And reportedly. Most of the major opposition would reportedly die in service of others that night. Isidor Strauss refused a place in a lifeboat so another passenger could take it. Reportedly Benjamin Guggenheim after seeing off his mistress and her maid in a lifeboat reportedly spent time assisting others into boats and helping the crew launch them. John Astor was last seen alive after helping launch the lifeboat containing his pregnant wife and two members of his staff.

An Interesting fact of the disaster. The majority of survivors of the Titanic disaster were Woman and Children.

On a side note. An investigative Journalist W.T Stead who apparently ran a controversial investigative series of articles on Child Prostitution in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1885 was also killed during the sinking. Apparently he was on his way to speak at a gathering at Carnegie Hall under the invitation of Howard Taft. Just a fascinating side note I found while researching the disaster.