[theAlphaDuck]

bouncing of a point made by the sarge...

i think suicide bombing, kamakazi etc...
is more about brain washing...both from society and an organised group.

i think it would be wrong to class those people as suicidal...

i remember when a 15yr old arab BOY...with a suicide vest on...

walked into an army checkpoint...crying his eyes out...only repeating
"i dont wanna die!"

it was REALLY sad...

its strange though that some societys have more suicide than others...

Japan has a BIG problem with suicide...yet its a prosperous country
uganda has virtually NO SUICIDE though people live with extreme hardships...

i think therefore alot of it is due to "Social Programming" by society...
something most people dont realise goes on and is happening to them...

also regarding suicide bombers....
i quote the tamil Tigers comander regarding suicide bombers (not verbatum but near enough)

"yes we use suicide bombers...if we want to hit a well defended target...we will have to use 150 men..of those probably only 50 will come back and the likelyhood of mission failure is high... however..if we use a single suicide operative then mission sucess is almost garenteed and our losses are only one...so in effect that one operative would have saved 99 lives..and chances are if we used a conventional attack...they would have died anyway"

but yea...i DO think that the two are VERY different...because "martyrs" have been brainwashed to kill themselves....suicidal teenagers have not