# do suicide bombers get paid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 31, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863 "2000-12-31T03:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jrishaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@jrishaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrishaw)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/1 "2000-12-31T03:55:12Z")
seriously 🙂 HELP WANTED WANTED – Progressive and motivational company seeks experienced suicide bomber. Must be self motivated and a team player. Send resume to… _ponder_ ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/2 "2000-12-31T04:03:47Z")
Suicide bombers are usually religious fanatics or completely nuts (whoops, those are the same thing.) So they’re perfectly willing, I’m sure to render their services for free. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/3 "2000-12-31T04:10:16Z")
Suicide bombers are often very young, filled with religious zeal and fervour, and with the wonderful image of dying for service of the Cause. Pretty much everyone in teen years or late teen years has notions of their own mortality, and imagines some great self-sacrificing Noble Death, I suspect. When such people get in the hands of religious terrorist organizations, it’s not hard to fill their heads with the Glorious Afterlife (waiting on hand and foot by beautiful naked whatchamajigger sexual spirits, etc) that will be theirs for the Wonderful Martyrdom. Sad, very sad. ---
**Author:** ![starfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@starfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starfish)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/4 "2000-12-31T06:50:24Z")
When I use them, I just tell them I will take care of their family. They know they will die and don’t need anything for themselves. Where do you live? Now that I told you I have to … send someone to visit you. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/5 "2000-12-31T06:56:14Z")
Being waited on hand and foot by beautiful naked whatchamajigger sexual spirits doesn’t sound sad to _ME_. 😃 Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![CLedet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@CLedet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CLedet)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/6 "2000-12-31T16:12:11Z")
IIRC this kind of thinking goes way back. The Pope promised that anyone who died fighting (on His side of course) in the crusades would go to heaven. I’m sure its the same with modern day nuts. Kinda sad if you think about it. In order to get a “Go to heaven free card” you have to kill & destroy. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/7 "2000-12-31T16:18:32Z")
In a lot of cases these people are outcasts in their own closed societies. Drug users, petty criminals, homosexuals, “fallen women” - the terrorist organizations snatch them up and tell them that they have a way to redeem themselves, to “make their families proud”. In cultures where the family is often more important than the individual, that carries a lot of weight. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/8 "2000-12-31T17:51:43Z")
The ads are in the same section with “Stuff Envelopes at Home” and “You Can Become Rickh While Sitting On Your Duff Serfing The Wibb.” The suicide bummer ads usually promise medical and dental insurance and generous vacations. I hope I misspelled enough of that to get past the spam filters. I guess we’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/9 "2000-12-31T21:11:50Z")
Heh. The spam filters in GQ are named “manhattan” and “Chronos.” No worries as long as it’s not real spam. Time-share suicide bombers? ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/10 "2000-12-31T22:05:23Z")
I worked as a suicide bomber in the past many times and I wasn’t that good at it, however I got paid very well. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/11 "2000-12-31T22:22:16Z")
Not only do suicide bombers get paid, but they get medical and dental also. Worker’s comp claims are a real problem in this business. So is liability insurance. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/12 "2001-01-01T00:36:20Z")
If ever there was a job that justified hiring a “temp” this would be it. ---
**Author:** ![smugg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@smugg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smugg)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-suicide-bombers-get-paid/47863/13 "2001-01-01T07:57:24Z")
Suicide bombers don’t get paid if they’re _good_ suicide bombers.