"Then live for those you lost or might have lost" he stated, sitting up and looking down at her. "Instead of wallowing in guilt over something beyond your control, live the best you can here and now." He stated.

After the death of his crew he wished he could have joined them, but after he managed to cure himself, he realized that if he'd just given up, then their deaths would have been in vain. So he carried on, getting into more trouble of course, until finally the gene therapy was perfected and the problems that had arisen in his crew were not repeated. Granted it wasn't a total comparison but it was close as he'd ever come.