This article is about Dagestani female bombers. Its first objective is to gather empirical information about women from the zone who decided to die while killing others. We argue that when national emancipation motives are not strong enough, female suicide choice has to do with patriarchal structures of the society, which impose a strict model of a feminine identity, rather than with any secular political ideology or religion. In order to check this hypothesis, we first describe the regional and national context of the conflict, then present a short record of male and female suicide acts. Finally, we analyze the factors of the individual's choice on the basis of the reconstruction of the life stories of two successful and two unsuccessful female bombers.