Unfair or Merciful?

but as was often the case, good intentions had not been enough. He had done everything he could to see that she survived. He could see no way anyone could have predicted this. Yet, here it was. She was dead and he was alive. It was not supposed to have turned out this way. He had been the one supposed to die. That would have been the "fair" thing to happen, for he deserved death. All the things he had done in his lifetime pointed to it. She on the other had had been innocent. Maybe it was a good thing. Now she would never have to know or experience how cruel the world really was.