[TopQuark]

No, not really. Some people, misguided they may be, can CHOOSE to live for their virtue or not live --- to paraphrase Nietzsche.

Calling them cowards is factually incorrect and does us disservice. We have to know them for who they actually are -- and kill them.

[GeorgiaYankee]

Suicide bombers can't accept life as it is, and can't find a way to change it, short of killing themselves and others.

Just because someone is not afraid of physical pain or death does not mean that person is "courageous." In a sense, that person is afraid to go on living.