<P> In a flashforward in "The Lighthouse", Ted proposes to the Mother at the top of the lighthouse near Farhampton Inn . She immediately accepts . In another flashfoward in "Unpause", the Mother is revealed to be pregnant with their second child, Luke, in the year 2017 . She goes into labor while she and Ted are staying at Farhampton . </P> <P> The Mother's real name is not revealed until the series finale, "Last Forever". When Ted meets her at the Farhampton train station, she reveals that her name is Tracy McConnell . In the season 1 episode "Belly Full of Turkey", Ted meets a stripper named Tracy and says "...that, kids, is the true story of how I met your mother". The children are horrified, but then he says he is joking, which led some fans to correctly guess that The Mother's name is Tracy . </P> <P> In the series finale, it is revealed that six years prior to Ted telling the story to his children, Tracy died in 2024 from an undisclosed illness . In the finale the characters do not directly state that the mother is dead . Ted says that she "became sick" and his children said that she has been "gone" for six years . Many fans expressed considerable disappointment to The Mother's death . Milioti cried when she learned her character was supposed to die, but came to accept the ending was what the writers had planned from the beginning . Bill Kuchman from Popculturology said that The Mother was "an amazing character" and that "over the course of this final season HIMYM made us care about Tracy . Kuchman said that "asking fans to drop all of that with a simple line about The Mother getting sick and passing away was a very difficult request", that the finale "advanced too quickly" and that "HIMYM was a victim of its own success on this issue". </P> <P> A petition was started, aiming to rewrite and reshoot the finale . The petition has over 20,000 signatures and considerable online news coverage . On April 5, 2014, Carter Bays announced on Twitter that an alternate ending would be included on the Season 9 DVD . No new material was shot for this scene . In the alternate ending, The Mother is still living when Ted is telling the story in 2030 . </P>

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