User blog comment:Kajune/Who killed Jimmy Novak?/@comment-5619706-20160130120424

That Castiel, and later, Lucifer, could inhabit Jimmy Novak's body without permission if he was dead really ticks me off. Angels need permission--it's been established. Even when Castiel died at the end of Lucifer Rising, he was brought back as revealed in Sympathy for the Devil, and Lucifer later comments in Abandon All Hope that he was looking at an "occupied vessel" but without the angel juice. That basically implies that Jimmy (the VESSEL) is alive AND occupied. Why should it suddenly stop being the case after Swan Song?