"Fusion occurs when two people become a psychological or physical unit. Psychiatrist S. Orgel wrote on fusion, suicide and a wish to return to the mother: “Fusing in death with the mother in fantasy, in reality fusing with others through murder-suicide, mass murder-suicide.”

"I conceived the term death fusion after reading about Sylvia Plath, whose work helped to conceptualize the concretization of suicide‒murder as death fusion. For the jihadi, the quintessential concrete expression of the death fusion occurs in the suicide attack."

NANCY HARTEVELT KOBRIN