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i know he dies in kaoru's lap but from what desise?

It's a skin disease, I believe it's a real disease, look it up on wikipedia.

The symptoms and the way Kenshin transmits it to Kaoru suggest syphilis.

I had been wondering about that, too. And at the present I think clorea would be the make the most sense out of the diseases listed.

The disease that Kenshin and Kaoru died of in SSH is a symbol of Kenshin's lost swordsman spirit. The soul of a samurai (I know he's not a samurai, but he lives as one) is in his sword. Therefore, when Kenshin passed the Sakabatou to Yahiko, he in effect, gave up his spirit.

This left Kenshin completely vulnerable to all the guilt he'd carried inside him for the past 20 years, but had been able to supress by using the Sakabatou to help people and protect the weak. Now the guilt which had manifested itself only through the unhealed scar consumed him from the inside out until it killed him.

Kenshin's passing the illness on to Kaoru is a symbol of the close bond they had developed. Although Kaoru (in the OVA time line!) could never be as important to Kenshin as Tomoe, she could still have her own place in his life by bearing his burden. This was her right as his wife, which is in keeping with Asian culture where widows are expected to throw themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres.

in the manga it megumi sed dat amakakeru ryu no hirameki slowly kills da body crying

hmmm i kinda agree with you i heard an idiot say tuberculosus but that can't be because it seems like an std because of how he passes it to kaoru..... but then i again he has a bandage on his throat i always thought it was a combination of desises considering how he acted in the end.*he sheds a tear* he also seemed to forget. he loved kaoru to the end i intend to be that way with my love...