What if you were the wife/child of a suicide bomber? Would the legacy of your husband/father's mass murder haunt you forever? Would you regard your husband/father as a martyr or mass murderer? Would you always bear the sins of your husband/father?
It's an interesting question.
How would you explain what played out in the past to people you meet in the present? Undoubtedly it would make an interesting drama.
The inquests of the 7/7 Tube Bombings heard that the plot's ringleader, Mohammed Sidique Khan, left a will in which asked his wife to understand what he did.
Khan, 30, said leaving his baby daughter behind when he blew himself up on a Tube train at Edgware Road station in London was "the most difficult thing in my life". In the will, he wrote to his wife Hasina Patel: "You have been very patient with me even though I never told you what I was doing and often lied to you. I know you trusted me and for that I thank you.
"Please forgive me for the deceit, lies and my absence, it was to please Allah."
Addressing his baby son, he wrote in the will: "The most difficult thing in my life was to leave you...
"I ask you to forgive me for not being a part of your life in this world."
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