Will Hill,
You said “Anyone who did not make it to a lifeboat, perished. “
This is not true.
There WERE people pulled from the water after Titanic sank,
and the only reason why a lot more weren’t saved was because only two lifeboats were willing to go back to pick people up, the rest were afraid that they would be mobbed and capsized by the people in the water and even the two that went back took a while to decide to do so.
As the ship was sinking nobody could have known who would have died, but one thing was for sure: men generally have a better chance at surviving then woman and children in such a situation.
This would apply to just about any other situation like a ship sinking