It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

It's a mixed blessing for the Democrats,

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Several families have brought in their dead.

Rather be dead than cool

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.