User blog comment:Maria Trimble/Death in Supernatural Shows/@comment-5982789-20130615221720

You can't really look at death in supernatural shows that have magic literally bursting at the seams without a grain of salt but there are limits.

The Gilbert rings you were talking about can only heal a human from a supernatural death. If you're a supernatural or die by natural causes or human error you're SOL. Jeremy, his uncle and Alaric(TVD) died numerous times from supernatural but Jeremy was the only one that got brought back outside of the ring and that was only with his witch girlfriend channeling hundreds of dead witches and only after having to convince them to help. Besides those everyone dies. Human, vampire and werewolf alike.

Charmed is kind of iffy on the death thing but then again there was a group called The Avatars that could bend space and time and change the world how they saw fit. They took people away and brought them back with a wave of their hand. This did come with a price as they have to build up their power over time to do something world changing.

A real example would be Supernatural. An episode focused on them dying and going to Heaven and a character made a joke about them resurrecting because they die constantly die.

So far TW has done pretty good about the whole 'no coming back unless extreme circumstances are met' and they've only done it once and it's left Peter very low on the power totem pole even after 4 months of recupperating.