The prudent course of action would be to flee rather than risk capture or destruction.

Risking capture and death for committing a private act, he is about to begin a diary.

Revealing himself would risk capture by the medical team, though, which he could not accept.

Philomelos was injured, and rather than risk capture, threw himself off the mountain, falling to his death.

Smugglers were hard, vicious men who, if necessary, would kill rather than risk capture.

Besides, they all committed suicide rather than risk capture.

The last hardman had preferred to take his own life rather than risk capture.

The Parsi women drowned themselves in the river rather than risk capture.

The authorities also found the bodies of 11 others who apparently preferred to die rather than risk capture.

The laborers risked capture by working outside protected Union lines.