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TNOandXadric wrote: My theories are that (1) if the heart of a living person is used to bring back a dead one, the living person dies [we've seen that heartless people can die if the person who takes their heart wants them to, as in the case of Cora's zombies] and (2) the coming back wrong happens because of the brain decomposition that happens after death, which is why Daniel is less wrong than Gerhardt [theoretically, then, if you put a preservation spell on a person within a few seconds of clinical death, the coming back wrong could be avoided].

As a sidenote how did Daniel end up with a preservation spell on before rigor mortis even set in (to the point that his blood was still liquid)? Regina didn't know magic on the day he died and Cora sure as hell didn't do it for her. Plot hole, lol. Regina couldn't have possibly learned it in time since she was moving to the castle, getting dresses prepared, and pushing mothers through glass, I mean hers. Cora didn't do it. And I'm sure Rumple didn't. Regina must have sneaked Cora's book from her and used it. Actually, how did she even have the body? I'm pretty sure someone would have buried it.