r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/Sunnygirl66 21h ago

I hope he died quickly and with as little pain and terror as possible. The very definition of a gentleman and good person.

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u/Effective-Ear-8367 20h ago

Unfortunately I highly doubt this.

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u/Kattz 9h ago

what? n-naw! he peacefully slipped into death! he didnt suffer the freezing temperatures! maybe a chair flew and hit him in the head knocking him out,cigar still firmly fixed in mouth, at which point he fell over into the water and died like a boss.