Mockingbird conditioned the masses for this. Like when James Stenbeck or John Dixon (As The World Turns) were chucked from airplanes at highest altitudes without parachutes only to come back good as new; Reva Shayne Lewis (Guiding Light) dying all kinds of ways, only to come back as a clone before she returned for good… Lujack; Alan & Phillip Spaulding…these characters died in explosions, getting shot to death, car wrecks, fires… only to reappear.
MSM's creation, this current crap, has WAY worse scripting than those soaps' writers could ever muster.