WARNING: It contains spoilers of the series and/or from other reference sources —books, other anime series, etc.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7
This episode of Fullmetal Alchemist helped me understand death and outstrip my grandmother's lost, it made me realize that, just as there's nothing that can replace a human soul, chemical elements that compose a human body are the same that return to earth to continue their cycle. But the really important thing of human being, the soul itself, returns to God who has given the spirit, namely, we can't try to revive someone, but God is the only one who can give resurrection. No matter how much we miss a loved one, man cannot recreate a soul and for that reason it is impossible for him to try to revive someone.
Now I remember a conversation of the alchemist teacher Izumi with a child called Manni:
MANNI: - ¿Is Chika injured? IZUMI-SENSEI: -No. She has died. MANNI: - You can repair things, also heal them, right? IZUMI-SENSEI: -Life and objects are differents, I'm not God. Her life ended and it is not going to come back … Death is part of life. Trying to revive or create life, it would just disturb life's cycle.
(Although Izumi-sensei understood this lesson after having tried it.)
I'm thankful of understanding this and not to pass every year in front of a tomb believing that she is there, when actually, her essence, her soul, the valuable of her being are in a different place.
It is inevitable the pain of her absence, but it is heartwarming to know that there is a hope of seeing her again and sharing with her being/essence, far from what is only a perishable case (meat, bonds, blood) "because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself." 2 Corinthians 4:14 NIV
¡Blessings! ^^
-Shino-