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You have a rant on angel death?

The law of Conversation of Energy states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

I find it very troublesome that, to date, Supernatural writers have treated angel-death as a very human experience, meaning that once the individual dies--that's it. They're gone. Yet in other instances of the angelic experience, we are presented with being who are more than human. So why treat their death differently than the rest of their story?

I do not mean to say your favorite angels should be coming back. I'm sorry to say, even in my headcanon, Balthazar, Gabriel, Anna, and Samandriel are all quite dead, and will not be re-raising themsleves; I mean, more, that their Grace, that heavenly essence we know to be the source of their power, is an unyielding energy as confined by those physicals laws we hold to be universally true as any other. The angels themselves might be dead--but their Grace has perpetuated itself, and though it has left the individual angel, it has not left the plane of existence.

In my own imaginings, there is a small nursery in Heaven; every time an angel perishes, be it on Earth or in any of the Heavenly Wars, the Grace is sent in this nursery, to meld with the spirits of still-born babes* and give birth to new angels in lower choirs, each of whom must re-learn how to conduct itself as a proper angel. In this way, the angels and their Grace is an unending and unexpendable as energy itself. *This is a highly personal headcanon; I won't go into much, but my own family suffered through two stillborns before the birth of my little brother, and I'd like to think those babies left us, not only togive the two children who came after them a beautiful life, but perhaps because they were needed more elsewhere.