What does a suicide bomber think in those last few seconds?

Question

Is it maddness, hate, rage or have they been cleverly brainwashed into believing someone else's selfish cause?
I'm in the bussiness of saving lives so I can't comprehend taking one.

Answer 1

What goes through his mind in those last few seconds? Usually his ribcage, teeth, jawbone, etc.

Answer 2

Many theorise...that these suicide bombers are actually in a form of hypnosis and there, for only think what there masters have told them...
Some believe that they are going to the after life and will be considered a god or martyr for their act...
some believe that they will receive many gifts from their god Allah in the holy world...
some are even told that they will not be killed only wounded during these bombings...
some scream phrases like.
"for Allah"
"For god"
and various other things...
many believe that these hate mongers twist events to make the target population e.g. England or America seem to be evil so that the suicide bomber will do their bidding...
i personally believe that, as one dead bombers body was found, they are drugged and don't really know what they are doing...
the doctors found traces of cocaine and other drugs in the body of a dead bomber whose explosives malfunctioned....suggesting that he had no idea what he was doing and that he was on a bad trip...if this is so then anyone can be drugged and used as a bomber a scary thought to be honest...

Answer 3

Article:
"The bombers believe they are sent on their missions by God, and by the time they're ready to be strapped with explosives, say the sources, they have reached a hypnotic state. Their rationale: that by blowing themselves up in a crowd of Israelis, they are forging their own gateway to heaven."
- From MSNBC

Some suicide bombers believe that what they are doing will make their heroes in the eyes of their people also that they will be greatly rewarded in heaven.

One who have doubts at the last minute will probably be thinking about their own families.

Check the link (source) on an newspaper article about how it is widely believed that Muslim 'martyrs' enjoy rich sensual rewards on reaching paradise (heaven).

Answer 4

How can anyone possibly articulate what mad men (or mad women for that matter) are thinking when about to blow themselves up along with perhaps hundreds of others. The men are offered virgins by the score; what are the women suicide bombers offered? Male virgins? Not very tempting I would say.

What kind of religion teaches killing, hatred and the slaughter of innocents? It is beyond comprehension as is the answer to the question.

Answer 5

His last thoughts are his family, how proud they are that he did it for a just cause. These SB's are fanatics who have been brainwashed by the head honcho who sits comfortably at home drinking beer and eating bacon and, make out, with western women all in the cause of Islam. This is not written in the Quran.

Answer 6

Your in the business of saving lives so you can't imagine what is going on in his mind? It's a totally different mind set. His values and yours are different. You value life, he doesn't. In his mind he is doing a totally rational and good thing. You can't beat that. Unfortunately all people do not think the same. Are maybe it's a good thing that people think differently. Maybe people should have the same values and goals for there life and there family's lives. They certainly don't value life.

Answer 7

You're trying to be rational. Based on your reality, where life has meaning and worth.

Now picture, mass suffering, purposely instilled, so as to totally detach you and your's, from any fond memories of this planet.

You're in pain. There's more coming. You see a dream of valhala! (BTW you've not had enough food to develop your brain. )
Not hard to see. Just refer to it as brain washed, could it be culturally induced insanity?

A walmart is going to open down the dune, the suffering may end. The instiller decides that can't happen.

Answer 8

I'd be more interested in what are they thinking before they sign up for the 75 virgins. Perhaps just a suspicion that someone's sold them a pup!?

Answer 9

I'm thinking that person truly thinks about the 'happiness' that awaits them on the other side. I'm sure they pray that their families will be safe. Because remember, in their minds, they are doing what they see as something that has to be done.
It's something that you and I will never be able to comprehend.

Answer 10

Well, we will never know, it is not something we can ask them is it? I expect that like the WW2 Japanese Kamikaze pilots there are petrified. But there is a difference, the Kamikaze were uniformed members of the enemy air-force fighting for their country in a declared war. The`suicide bombers we are talking about are not soldiers and are not in a declared war, they are murderers killing civilians women and children, because they have been persuaded to do so, by demented thugs pretending it is Gods` will. So I really do not care what they are thinking about or how scared they are.

Answer 11

He thinks he's going to heaven.

He thinks how proud his family will be.

He's relieved that the wait is over.

Too bad he's wrong about the first. But don't mistake his commitment. People who do this are genuinely convinced, not crazy. For many young men, this is their ticket to social approval and the elevation of their family in the eyes of the community. Mothers whose sons have immolated themselves -- particularly if they've taken many kafirs (infidels) with them -- are revered on the Arab street.

If we could just remove the second motivation, and find a way to make suicide-murder as abhorrent in the Muslim world as it is in ours, we'd be much closer to stopping suicide bombers.

But until Muslim culture stops celebrating "martyrdom", there will be no end to it.