Sounds like tradition, although I'm not sure.

Perhaps it was because just before the Titanic came into service, there was a new distress morse code signal that came into effect. It was S.O.S. Some people claimed it stood for, Save Our Souls, others claimed it stood for, Save Our Ship. The reason S.O.S was used, was beause in morse code it was three letters that each have three dots and dashes, ...---... . It was quicker to transmit then say, we are sinking, help us. Hope this helps you? P.S, in those days, everything was sent in morse code, as there was no such thing as talking over radio waves.

This response in regard to the SOS answer, which is incorrect... The first formal distress code for wireless telegraphy was proposed by Marconi in 1904 and consisted of the letters 'CQD'. CQ already was used in land-based telegraph systems to alert listeners that an important message was about to be transmitted. The letter D was to indicate distress, so CDQ meant "Attention all listeners: Distress". At a conference in 1906, it was proposed that the string 'SOS' be adopted for emergencies. It was believed that this string was more easily interpreted than CQD. A continuous transmission of 'SOS SOS SOS SOS...' is quite unmistakable, even in the presence of background noise or other wireless transmissions. SOS was formally adopted in 1908, but CQD continued to be used for many years. The wireless operator on board the Titanic, which sank in 1912, transmitted distress messages consisting of six CQD strings, followed by the call letters of the Titanic, MGY (e.g., 'CQD CQD CQD CQD CQD CQD MGY'). Later, while the Titanic was still transmitting, the operator added SOS messages interspersed among the CQD messages. This was the first use of SOS during an emergency situation. A ship in distress would also need to transmit any information needed to locate it and provide help. A listener who responded to an SOS or a CQD message would still need to know where the ship was located to effect a rescue - radio direction finding was unknown at the time - and what sort of conditions they would encounter. The ship in distress would need to transmit its position or, if that was unknown, its last known position, the time the last reading was taken, the weather conditions (e.g., wind speed, direction, wave conditions), the estimated speed of drift, and any other information that would be needed by someone mounting a rescue operation (e.g., the number of passengers, number of lifeboats, the number of injured persons, the severity of their injuries, the absence or presence of other craft to help, what type of assistance the ship in distress could offer to recuers). Telegraph operators could transmit a substantial amount of information in a very short time - a good operator could transmit up to thirty or forty words a minute. Since specialized 'shorthand' was used, a substantial amount of information could be transmitted in a very short period of time. Although the telegraph keys shown in movies and on television use a key that is pressed down to make contact, the fastest units had keys or paddles that moved side-to-side (laterally). These reduced the strain on the operator's wrist and some allowed the operator to make contact when the key was moved to either the left or right. These first appeared around 1900 and quickly became popular. Professional telegraph operators often owned their own keys and used them in place of the keys supplied by their employers. The other answer was also incorrect in stating that voice transmission had not been invented at the time the Titanic sank. Marconi had developed the spark transmission system and was uninterested in working on the continuous wave (CW) system required for voice communications. Development of the spark system continued until 1912, after which development work focussed on voice communications. The first successful CW voice transmissions were made by Fessenden in 1900. Fessenden's work on voice communications is not well known, because his work was overshadowed by Marconi, who was both well-established and well-known. Voice transmission systems, however, could not provide the range of the spark systems, which had been able to make trans-Atlantic transmissions by the early 1900s. This gave wireless telegraphy a clear advantage at the time. Ship to shore voice communications did not come into widespread use until the early 1920s. Voice radio was in use in the early 1900s, mainly by amateur or 'ham' radio operators. Shortly before WW1, radio licensing systems were introduced. Development received a great boost during WW1, after amateur radio activities were banned and the military took over development. Amateur broadcasting resumed after WW1 and the first commercial broadcasters appeared.

If a 'soul' can be lost or die, it belies the Catholic teaching that a part of us departs the body at death and flies off to heaven. If the Catholic teaching is true, then the 'soul' cannot die. But the bible says it can. (Ezekiel 18:4) Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die. So our 'souls' must be US, breathing. And the Hebrew word translated 'soul' is NEPHESH which means...that which breathes...