How would you feel about imprisonment? I’d rather cut my throat than go into an institution.
And in sickness, say - and wounded, as he was - how if a prisoner hampered their movements too much? They might be forced to discard him - and a stray company working at large would not scruple to cut his throat, though Owen would.
The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family. On one occasion heavies approached him in the street and cut his throat, near to the jugular vein.