Quote Originally Posted by DJZen
This is what's called a "blatant falsehood". No, this CAN NOT HAPPEN. Aeris dies, there's NO getting around it. There is NO alternative. It's part of the storyline. You can NOT change this. If anyone insists otherwise they're either lying or naive.
the reason for this being a major part in the story, if you notice, the "Holy" materia only appears to have been glowing after Aeris died, so it must have needed her "spirit energy" to activate, as Sephiroth needed a huge amount of it to use Meteor