<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 react encouraged and appear to believe Ted before he admits 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 saying 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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