User blog comment:Sokka-vom-Wasserstamm/Where do they go after death?/@comment-24329970-20150527010811

Wait.. what? No, I think you're confused at the order of events, Ed came back from the gate, he was stabbed by Envy after that and then Al used his Philosopher's Stone within him to resurrect his brother.

I dunno if you still check on this. I can answer your questions.

1. No, Ed's mother was already dead, her soul have already passed on. The Elric brothers only transmuted her body which later created Sloth. The other Trisha Elric (the other world's version) is not her, same body but different souls, the concept of parallel universe shouldn't be hard to understand. The first time where Ed was sent to the gate by Dante, and you know he somehow managed to pass through the gate and reach the "other side", it was an accident. The second time when he transmuted himself to bring back Al and came into our world, he did it subconsciously since it was the only way to escape from the gate.

The second part of your question, yes, you are right. It has been explained that in our world, there are more death compared to Ed's world since our soul served as energy for the use of alchemy transmutation. If you are confused about how Ed managed to come back from the other side when Danate sent him away, remember how a Zeppelin crashed on him and he couldn't move? As he was dying, Ed clapped his hands and debris falls on him. Either both Ed's souls went into the gate by default (when a person died) or Ed used his alternate self, the other Ed's soul as energy to get into the gate again and assemble his mind & body (his body is still in the gate) together again. It can be both, I have no idea. Anyway, during this time, Dante coincidently opened the gate to disable Wrath's ability to use alchemy and that's how Ed managed to get back.

2. It implied that all soul goes into the gate after they died. Think of it this way, the first important reason why Ed and his father managed to come to our world is that, they are still classified as alive, their minds & bodies were sent into the gate intact, Ed did it to himself willingly and Hohenheim, although he was forced, he willingly accepted his fate. Not to mention, there are number of reasons like they are both strong-minded person, alchemists and how they both have experienced all that ordeal.

Sorry if my english is bad. I hope you get it.