Commentary for Gittin 140:12
אמרי חי הוא וסופו למות
why can they testify that he is dead? — We say that he is alive, but he is bound to die. But if that is the case, [the man who cut his throat] [accidentally] should be exiled [to a city of refuge] on account of him; why then has it been taught, 'If one cut [accidentally] two passages or the greater part of two passages of [the throat of] another, he is not exiled'? — It has been explained in regard to this that R. Oshaia said: We consider it possible that the wind troubled him or that he hastened his own death.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore we do not hold the man who cut his throat guilty even of accidental homicide. ');"><sup>10</sup></span>
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