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''[[Death Amnesia|That he may tell us how they fare]].<br />

''Lo, [[Can't Take Anything with You|no man taketh his goods with him]].<br />

 

You're in a universe where Magic and/or Phlebotinum are commonplace. The gifted few can do anything you can think of: stop time, create energy, fly... but they can't raise the dead. Simply trying is usually suicidal and taboo. Expect the [[Eccentric Mentor]] to go into full-tilt grim mode if someone mentions it. It's pretty common for an idealistic hero to contemplate attempting this anyway, usually giving up after deciding that some things are better left alone; if they don't, something usually [[Came Back Wrong|comes back wrong]]. Alternatively, bringing someone [[Back From the Dead]] is possible, but due to [[Equivalent Exchange|the nature of the power at work]] it's almost never done. (If people are still usually resurrected in this kind of world, it tends to be a very big deal.) This is usually an [[Author's Saving Throw]] against trivializing Death in a world where it would otherwise be a minor inconvenience.

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** It gets a bit more complicated. Al wasn't just "payment". Al's body was taken by Truth, but since a soul cannot be created with alchemy, Al's soul was put into the thing that was created. The transmutation that took Ed's arm was used to transfer the soul into a more stable host, the armor.

** The series eventually ends with Ed learning what it'll take to bring an entire human back out from the other side: {{spoiler|his Alchemy -- his own internal connection to Truth}}.