Reborn? Heh, isn't that nice. In my world humans just died and were sent to the underworld to be judged, if they were considered bad they were tortured eternally as punishment, if they were good they went to the Elysium, basically a heaven. I doubt any human has ever been found "good" by the rules used there.

[Probably even Esmeralda ended there, because she stepped on an ant or something like that. The judges didn't let anything go without punishment after all.]

So every time I died, I had to cross the whole hell to get back to the living world. As the Phoenix I can resurrect from my ashes, but there's no speed ticked through the process most of the time.