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In "Hisoka vs Chrollo", Hisoka lost the challenge, his legs and hands, and
also his life as well. But after a moment, he came back alive and with his
other body parts.(regenerate with rubber body)

So my question are:

  1. Does other Nen user have this ability too? (I mean get killed and then retrieved by Nen just like Hisoka. )


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Is Hisoka basically immortal?


Those who have been following the manga into the Dark Continent ark will
already know the answer:in **Chapter 373** , Prince Camilla's nen ability
allows her to be revived after death in return for the life of the the
attacker.

A related and slightly more interesting discussion might be whether this was
plausible given the information we had on nen pre-Camilla. The idea of nen
getting stronger after death is introduced in **Chapter 120** , in the Yorknew
Arc. From the wiki

> The most common reason for this phenomenon to occur is the ability of the
> dying user while harboring a strong grudge will cause their Nen to seek out
> the object of their hatred and cling to it

We've been told that post-mortem nen is _stronger_ that usual nen, but that
doesn't necessarily mean it can do all the sophisticated things that a nen-
user can manage when alive with a functioning brain. However, there's strong
evidence to suggest that post-mortem nen can carry out everything the nen-user
could pre-program when alive.

On a fairly basic level, the Phantom Troupe were worried about Kurapika's nen
going to Chrollo and potentially killing him. There are two ways I can
envisage this happening. Firstly, there's also a risk from the nen itself; we
learn in **Chapter 48** that just sending nen into someone not protected by
their own nen is enough to break them into bits. Secondly, the chain around
his heart could be activated by the post-mortem nen. However this would mean
Kurapika's nen activated without Chrollo necessarily breaking the rules, so
the post-mortem nen is not following the original rules (we see in **Chapter
352** that this is possible but with a bit of a complicated mess with mixing
abilities). So we see Kurapika's hypothetical post-mortem nen doing two things
1) moving to a different location or 2) activating an already implemented
ability.

Of these two, its mainly the latter that we see later. In **Chapter 307**
Pitou's post-mortem nen ability moves Pitou's corpse in order to kill Gon.
Note that Pitou had already implemented his ability onto himself and Pitou's
ability was already able to move corpses. Now to **Chapter 356/357** , Hisoka
is able to _program_ his post-mortem nen to beat his heart and lungs after
death. It's debatable whether he already had the ability to program his bungee
gums to activate at certain times without his input, but it's certainly
plausible. In either case, it doesn't hurt our argument that _post-mortem nen
can do everything it's original user could program it to do_.

So we've seen that post-mortem nen can be programmed (and we've seen pretty
sophisticated programming going into nen abilities - Bomber for example). Now
nen can do pretty much anything plausible in universe for the right price. So
there are two questions remaining: 1) is coming back to life allowed in the
world of HxH? 2) what would the price be?

Just to emphasise that this isn't stupidly obvious from our previous
discussion; whether Hisoka actually died in the sense that his brain stopped
functioning completely is arguably ambiguous; one can go a [fair amount of
time](http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/long-persons-heart-
stopped-wouldnt-try-revive/) with your heart stopped before you die and as
this is HxH world, we can assume everyone is a little superhuman.

I think what appears to be an unrelated fact is relevant here: the Chimera
ants and the memories of their 'previous life'. Scientifically, I'm fairly
certain there is no way that a mushed up mix of brain and genes can retain
lifetimes of memories (but I'm no expert here) and Togashi even refers to the
soul in **Chapter 337** to explain this:

> The soul is probably small, but it has the energy to reincarnate itself

So reincarnation with memories is possible in HxH canon. It doesn't take a big
leap to say that revivification is possible, as long as the body is intact, as
required.

To summarise, post-mortem nen can do what you program it to, nen can do pretty
much anything that is allowed in universe and revivification is plausible. As
for the price - who knows - anything goes really when you ask what balances
out with bringing somebody back to life, from 'life is priceless' (e.g. FMA)
to 'life for a life'. But revivification nen abilities are cool, bring an
interesting dimension to nen fights, and HxH is written by Togashi, so perhaps
a Prince Camilla type nen ability is to be expected.


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