What are you getting at--

[... If someone made the choice to try to rescue someone else... but they died in the process.

He snorts softly under his breath then.]

Yes.

It would be. It was their choice. Their responsibility. Their actions. To not take responsibility for that would be to act as though the choice was regretted in the first place.

[He...doesn't want to think that he died for a choice he regretted. He can't think that.]