Kind of worked the same in the world I'm from too. "Oh, you thought Hansel and Greta were actually two little kids and not one giant demon with a glamour? Wrong!"
Best Friend. She's not here unfortunately, but it was really uncommon in our world. Like they used the last urn relic to bring me back and it got destroyed.
Worst. Pain. Ever. Regrowing organs. Also really freaky going from cold, dried corpse to warm and human and buried in a coffin. I don't recommend it. I hope Shep had some good pain meds.