I agree with the others, that its about causing Angier pain because of the disgust he feels, but there is perhaps a deeper meaning that relates to the theme of the whole film.
The story of a sailor drowning and feeling like he's going home is in a sense the idea that to die doing the thing you dedicate your life too wouldn't even hurt, it would feel like the completion of your life's work.
A sailor drowning feels like he's going home.
A magician dying doing a trick is completing his final flourish.
But after this whole chase for perfection, to create the best trick possible, Cutter is reminding Angier that in the end, he has destroyed himself. That contrary to his delusions of grandeur, to die at the hand of the thing you love is not noble, its still just agony. He hasn't won anything, he's only succeeded in killing the self he used to be.
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