User blog comment:Darchangel 66/Castiel (Jimmy) as Lucifers vessel/@comment-27270979-20160121030957/@comment-5619706-20160121142238

This has been bugging me since I'm No Angel. It has been stressed that angels can't and do not possess dead people as they need consent in contrast with demons, who do not need active permission of their host. It has been a major plot point of Season 4-5 about angels needing consent. Hell, the whole apocalypse arc depended and ended on that crucial plot device.

However, in Season 9, so many angels have been meaning to use Jimmy Novak as their vessel. If he was dead, first of all, Castiel should not have been able to use the vessel to begin with and it is more ridiculous that other angels can just snatch it from him.