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For instance in that shoddily written fanfic tier short story Rika lets herself be killed with a smile on her face to resurrect for the hell of it, accepting immortality as a matter of course.
While in the infinitely more soulful, more heartfelt Saikoroshi which is the Higurashi epilogue has Rika reject the witch part of her and vow to live as human as possible, and die as a human without resurrection.

Saikoroshi is more canon than your crappy short story (and the sotsugou anime for that matter) that spits on life I'd say as it was written when Ryukishi was in his right mind, it's a VN, and it's in character.