[WolvenLordSoulReaper]

Immortality for a loved one. Never having to fear death or its consequences. Despite our vain protestations, we all fear even a little that which lies beyond the Darkened Doorway. And now we've been granted access to that which we believe can close that door permanently. Would you so carelessly and ignorantly defy death and its reward as the Brothers Elrich attempted to do? And once you fell on the darkened side of the doorway, what price would you pay to get back that which you had so vainly gambled in the quest for immortality?

Simply out, would you do as the Elrichs did, believing you could bring back the dead with the transitional 'science' of Alchemy? And God said, 'Look, they have eaten from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, and have become as us. Let us now take from them the Tree of Life, that they may not eat of it, and live forever.

[conanfan3344]

no, if I know whats ahead and yes if I don't know whats ahead, if I have to I will throw my common sense out the window

[Gawain]

No, I wouldn't. Dead is dead, and nothing good can come of tampering with that. There's middle ground I might inch out on, but one a person is in the ground, and certainly once s/he's started to decompose or is cremated, reanimation is a no-go. I'd say after all vital functions stop, one has approximately a five minute grace period before reanimation is impossible by any moral method. Unless gods get involved, that is. But that's a whole different kettle of fish.

[Kurisuta1]

Well sense i read this manga i'd know better

But if i hadnt read this manga and alchemy was that widely possible in their situation i might. In my own i don't know. I think i'm pretty good in terms of exceptign death but i don't know... if it was my brother and i thought there might be a way i might... but then i'd think my brother would'nt want me to do that after all he taught me. So.... I really don't know

[anime freak Charlie]

Hell no. I would never cross the line just to bring back a dead person. I'd have to be sick in the head to do something so risky.

[Ninya]

I'd cross any line in hope of bringing back a loved one. It's not logical, but I expect my logic would fly out the window if confronted with this choice. I wouldn't, however, risk anything for my own immortality. I forget who the ruler was that died from drinking poison in his attempts to gain immortality. It just doesn't make sense to risk the life you have just to get more.

[TrisakAminawn]

I suspect myself of being a cold bastard, or possibly just a coward; I give up on that which is lost to me. So I doubt I would. When I was thirteen...who knows? I was a dope. Most of us were. I wouldn't knowingly risk everything, but I can respect making the attempt if the possibility seems present. However, one should always make a policy of understanding a law before attempting to defy it. This extends from graffiti through gravity. Once a thing is understood, it may be manipulated. Oh, shards, that's a principle of alchemy, isn't it? It's true anyway, though...

They didn't want immortality particularly, just 'life.' By all lords, gods, and minor deities, Wolven, cut the melodrama! They were kids who wanted their mother. Now they're older kids wanting their bodies back, even though they have their lives. You're being criminally vague, right up until your 'simply put' when it turns out you want to see who's willing to commit hubris. Don't trash the main characters quite so? What precisely did you mean by your use of the word 'transitional?' You mean people should wait to use science until it reaches higher levels, or something? I'm mostly used to seeing it in writing critiques and discussions of interim governments. Oh, and I think it's another term for bifocal spectacles.

Hah, well now I know how that passage reads in your translation... I would believe I could bring back the dead if I actually had reason to think I could bring back the dead. Period. Ed and Al didn't study tissue alignments carefully enough to get an accurate body, so they got that mess, and they didn't try to deconstruct the nature of the 'soul' they were trying to summon at all, not that I know where they could have started. And as it turned out, natural law in an extremely mystical sense was against them, and you 'can't create anything with alchemy that doesn't exist in the world.'

Until you try, you do not know what laws are of nature and what of man. Both would have you believe they are the laws of god, but only one set are self-enforcing. Whether this...er...necromancy would be morally acceptable is the question you were asking, I suppose...which of the several reasons Arakawa has presented for the ban on human transmutation do you think is the right one?

I will neither break nor accept any law I do not understand.

[rawwr.timcampyx3]

idk. they were like.. 10 or something. if i was ten..
i'd be overly depressed if my mum died.
so i'd want to do it.
so yeah.
but if i knew what was going to happen,
idk.

[Kurisuta1]

yeah, actually they were just like 8 and 7 when their mom died in the anime. So that'd be really bad. And i think they wre even younger in the manga really sad

[Kakkoi]

If I was able to bring back someone I loved from the dead, would I? Let me tell you a small story...


There once was two children, a boy and a girl. They played everyday and loved each other like family. But as they grew up the girl started to love the boy in a different way. Afraid of ruining the relationship they had, the girl kept her love a secret, and the boy never knew any better.

The boy found another to love, and the girl suffered in silence. Unable to see him with another, the girl stopped seeing the boy.

But the boy was suffering in a different way. The girl that he chose broke his heart in a very public manner. Humiliated and alone the boy killed himself.

When the girl found out, she fell into a deep depression that took many years to escape from...

So would I bring him back to life? Even after reading this manga, I would still say yes. I miss him so much, and I've always regretted not telling him, "I love you".