Inventory management has been indeed a rather weak point - they tried to improve it from the classical edition though.
When you resurrect a character, you can select a place where he comes to life again - that is if you use keyboard and mouse. I haven't used a controller myself, so I don't know about it.
Edit: Just out of curiosity, are you playing the PC or the console version?
Last edited by Elwyn; 20/04/16 07:23 PM.