I know Trisha died of a long and painful disease, but did they ever say what it's called? If they didn't, anyone want to speculate?

Boredom?I mean it seemed pretty dull in their village[/jk]
More likely some kinda cancer or some other depressing illness.It can't be genetic or virulant other wise Ed or Al would have caught it.

House would have saved her.

They never really explained it...just like they never really explained what Lust's human self died of either

House would have broken several rules, and made Winry cry.

Well in the anime what wouldn't make her cry?
Manga Winry would "clonk" upside his head.
Win-win really.Winry crying=funny
House getting hurt=more funny

PCP overdose.

Well, telling that she collapsed and was sweating, it was problably cancer of some sort like U said.

I wanna be a doctor, so I know >_<

I've read that depression can weaken the immune system, so that could have aggravated whatever it was she had.

She died of majorplotpointitis. If she hadn't died, Ed and Al would never have tried to bring her back, so no FMA.

Some said Dante poisoned her or something.

House would have mis-diagnosed her for the first 45 minutes, then he would have realized that she was secretly manipulating unrefined red water in the celler. Somewhere along the way, Ed would have taken a swing at him. That would be quite an episode.

Peace,
Joe J.

Maybe it's just me, but I think that at Trisha's funeral (at least in the manga) they said something about a plague. The symptoms looked a bit like TB...

That was one vague crackpot theory in a yuri fanfic...

that's all I can recall hearing that from.

Yeah, I think it was some kind of cancer that they couldn´t control back then.

But I think that Hohenheim´s absense also help a lot. Maybe if he had been with his family, Trisha could´ve live longer.

I don´t blame Hohenheim for that because I really really like him but I mean, he had a family. He should´ve been there for it.

haha...Yeah at least 90% of the episodes in House tend to be poisoning by some toxic material. Trisha would hide the truth until House figuered out what was going on, Winry would cry, and then House would pop some pills. Also, hookers are involved.






I have heard though that depression does weaken the immune system, so whatever illness she had was advanced significantly by Hohenheim not being around. It also does make sense that Dante could have done it, or it could have been Envy, who managed to create some weird epidemic in Lujon's village where the skin would harden.

Chuck Norris's tears could have cured her. Unfortunately, Chuck never cries.

DanteXTrisha?

:rolleyesbarf:

Fandom is scary.

But I love all of the cracky glory.

Trisha x Sarah w00t!

by that point,
they still would tend to be an alchemist,
trying to find their father,
thas what i think...


Trisha X Pride, hek hek hek

hm... well i can't explain it but if she was like water or something as a homunculi... i dunno but for some reason i'd have to say pneumonia (water in lungs) seriously i dunno y i think that

I'm not sure if the manga explination is valid for the anime but in it she dies of a plauge.(not the plauge but a plauge)

Well I hate talking about this kind of medical stuff, but I'd guess she had a sort of cancer or a serious case of deppresion. Thats my best shot.

who the hell is house? hahahah :S

mmmm....? maybe diabetes? they couldn't control that in 1910 and supposedly it would be a long dragged out and painful death...

TV show character who's supposed to be the greatest dianostican in the US but uh-oh!He's a grummpy son of gun.
Very good show.

Mm, I was just wondering about this very question last night actually. It does definitely seem that her depression made whatever she had worse... I`m gonna guess cancer, because it just seems to fit.

dont know, but im sure it would have helped her had she seen Hoenhiem before her death

hey, that brings up a good point, maybe it was sumthing like that.

Thank you MonsterEnvy!!! I knew I had heard that she died from a plague and for the life of me, I couldn't remember where I had heard it...and you jarred my memory!!! I know it was somewhere in the manga around the time of her funeral, not exactly sure of the page or chapter but thats where it is!!!

[Seriously] She died because she was keeping all her sadness and anger in her heart and it couldn't take anymore. That's what they said in anime if I remember right...

no no. the @%$ hoinheim left because his body was rotting. and trisha's life force died down waiting for him to return. that's also why ed and al are so pissed at him

Could it be the black plague , It is caused by a virus named yersinia and the flea of the black rat (the comun rat) and it killed half of Europe on the 14 century. Maybe Arakawa used it on FMA.

Nope. FMA took more of a 19th century role in its setting.

I think she died because she was sad and she was in sorrow.

That wouldn't rule it out in the FMA world. Their timeline is diffrent from ours. What does rule out the black plauge is the lack of symptoms for the plauge. I didn't see any blotchy skin or pustules.

I think it may of been a mixture between missing Hoenheim and the illness

Illness-wise, I really don't know what it could of been.. although like someone said earlier, it was probably Hoenheim's absence that made it worse.

That's what I thought too...

She died cause it was important to the story.

^

Seriously. XD Can you imagine what Ed and Al would be like if she never died?

The depression of her husband being gone for so long. It can kill you when you no longer have the will to live.

She dies of the plague! So sad....

I was thinking she died of some pain of loneliness or something, because her husband left her and she missed them and causeed some sort of something?...

A plauge, not The Plauge. There's a diffrence.

She died because Arakawa and the director wanted her to die. : D

I'm so going to hell for that... I just couldn't resist.

She died from the depression and darkness eating at her or something like that. It was because of Hohenheim leaving her. That's why ed hates him so much because he caused Trisha to die. Or so I heard.

Or so he thought.

It was more than likely a mixture of depression and some disease, I would think.

Popos rule of the Web #11: Never belive anythng startng "Apprently" or ending in "So I heard."

It may of been something that Hoenheim had. (not STD's) some thing that was on him. Whatever was happening to him (you should know what I am talking about now) may have been the reason he left. (hint: Dante has it to *wink*wink*)

yea. i think her worrying too much & waiting for that long was one of the reasons that she died the way she did.

...

Somehow, I doubt his physical condition killed her. Maybe figuratively (assuming that she knew about it), but I don't think that was contagious...I highly doubt it was.

That's probably what happened. But it was in the 20th century she died and that it was very common.

Either she died from the plague, or she died from a heart attack or cancer.