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This is increasingly becoming a problem in almost all fiction, and I'm kind of sick of it. One of the more blatant ones that sticks out in my mind are the Game of Thrones books. He kills off an absurd amount of important characters (this is fine. It's war. People die in wars), but if you don't explicitly see the death happen, or if it stops short of showing the body after death, it's almost guaranteed that this person is either still alive, or is coming back by magical means. See Jon Snow, Tyrion, Stannis, and Bran, just to name a few.
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A couple of those were fake outs or wounds that are written in a way that belies their seriousness
Bran, Arya, Asha, Tyrion (I guess) Davos... - Some are handled a little better than others
Davos for example but the literary merit of those is up for debate really...
But I'm not too bothered about ACTUAL resurrections since, in this world, they seem to fundamentally change a character - for the worse.
So I don't think Catelyn's resurrection feels cheap and I look forward to Jon's inevitable resurrection and how it dramatically changes the character. It seems to be an interesting way to handle resurrections than most of the fiction I've consumed.