Edward in “Unfinished Business”

Edward [Voice over]: We talked about what would happen if we died here, remember?

Alphonse [Voice over]: Yeah, a lot of people would be sad…

Edward [Voice over]: That’s a subjective opinion, but look at it objectively, if I died the world would continue to move along as if nothing had happened…

Alphonse [Voice over]: Because you’re just a small part of it- OW!

Edward [Voice over]: Don’t call me small! Now when the small part, in this case me, dies, the body remains.

Alphonse [Voice over]: Water, carbon, ammonia, lime, phosphorus, salt, saltpeter, sulfur, magnesium, fluorine, iron, and aluminum, right?

Edward [Voice over]: Right. The body is only a combination of those simple elements, nothing more. We’re destined to be decomposed by bacteria and become nutrients for plants, and if you follow the process further, those plants nourish herbivores.

Alphonse [Voice over]: And those herbivores nourish carnivores… Even others like us… And though we lose awareness, our lives keep moving through the system.

Edward [Voice over]: The great flow that maintains the universe, we call it the cycle of life, course of nature. Each of us is just a small part of that current: One in the all. And with out all the individual ones, the all can’t exist. This world flows by following greater laws we can’t even imagine, to recognize that flow, and work within it, to decompose, and recreate…

Elrics [Voice over]: That is Alchemy…