How does Padme "Lose the will to live"?

I prefer the theory that Sidious is draining her life to put into Vader to keep him alive by exploiting the link between them.

The medical droids don't understand the Force, so they can't explain it.



also obligatory Dr Ball video
https://youtu.be/eAKtZ_r0V6E?t=36


"He's dusted, busted and disgusted, but he's ok"

I got the impression that the "no will to live" theory merely became the accepted explanation, but in reality Padme just died in childbirth like women do from time to time. Add the fact that she had twins, went through major stress leading up to the delivery and that she was choked/thrown to the ground by Anakin and it suddenly seems plausible it became too much for one person.

It's clear Padme didn't want to die and that she loved her children, so the implication that her own death is her fault is almost insulting to her memory.

But in any case, her death is an insult period because she wasn't even supposed to die. Leia has memories of her that she recounts in ROTJ. That's my biggest problem with ROTS. They killed her so the ending could be more dramatic and for no other reason.

She just gave birth to twins that she noe has to raise. Where does she get the balls to die like that?

There are 2 schools of thought :

1 : Padme is a horrible person

2 : George Lucas is a horrible writer

Then of course you'll have stupid defenses from stupid people who like the prequels but they don't matter.

I guess they could have kept her alive, but they would need to give a valid reason why she would willingly give up her son to Obi-Wan to take to Tatooine.

Let me put it this way. Debbie Reynolds died a day after her daughter passed away, leaving another daughter and a granddaughter behind. If that's not losing the will to live, you have no real understanding of human affection or compassion.

What REALLY Killed Padme in Revenge of the Sith? Star Wars Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXIh7WZuFc

https://www.quora.com/If-Padme-was-still-alive-would-she-have-recognized-Vader-while-wearing-his-armor-as-Anakin/answer/Feifei-Wang-6

Out of all the horrible choices Lucas made for the prequels, the death of Padme irks me the most. Yes, it irks me even more than Jar Jar Binks. With Jar Jar, we all know he's a horrible character, that there's no hope for him. He's there because Lucas thought kids would love a clumsy and funny character who can't talk right.

But Padme is different. The story set her up to be a powerful, strong-willed, resourceful, and resilient career politician. This is made even more clear in Clone Wars. She was very well respected in the Senate and carried out numerous crucial and dangerous missions. I can't accept that such a strong female character literally lost the will to live because her asshole boyfriend turned to the Dark Side and dumped her?! REALLY? Lucas?

Padme wouldn't have died from childbirth (unless in the galaxy far far away we can fly between stars but childbirth is still a battlefield). She had plenty of willpower to live, not only for her newborn children, but to lead the resistance against the empire. She was always a leader; she wouldn't give that up. Anakin's betrayal would only harden her will. She'd fight against him, believing there was still good in Anakin. She wouldn't give up hope.

And I think she would know Vader as Anakin—her emo good-for-nothing whiny Jedi-turned-Sith husband—in a suit.

Think about it. If she’d survived the childbirth (which she should have), she'd probably leave her two children with Organa and Obi Wan, and she would join the rebel force (or whatever resistance they would have had at the time). Neither Vader nor Palpatine deliberately hid the fact that Vader was Anakin Skywalker.

Yeah, Padme's death never made much sense to me. It seemed as if the only reason she died was because it was in the script. I mean, the droids said she was perfectly healthy, and she had extremely advanced tech to help with the birth, despite being on a remote asteroid station. Padme was also a strong-willed woman, and it would have taken a lot to kill her off. I thought it was extremely bad writing, to be honest. Nobody with an ounce of sense was gonna buy into that, not even kids.

If they truly wanted to make her death realistic, they could have had her bleeding internally while giving birth. That kills birthing moms, even in this day and age of modern medicine. It's dangerous and life-threatening because often the doctors can't locate where the wound is if it's deep inside, and even then, it's difficult to stop. It wouldn't have taken much on Mustafar, particularly when her own husband attempted to Force choke her and caused horrible stress to her body.

But no, Lucas had to be a dumbass with the script.


I did find the fan theory interesting. People have been suggesting that Palpatine (Darth Sidious) used Anakin's mental and emotional connection to Padme to drain her life force from her to sustain his new apprentice and help him to heal instead. That's actually how Sith can heal using the Dark Side. They drain life from others in order to save someone they want to live. The Sith that was doing the healing wouldn't care about the people who got hurt, so long as the person they were healing continued to live.

The trouble is, there is no evidence of this in the film, nor did they make it really obvious. Heck, many people don't even know that the Force can be used to heal, whether using the Dark or the Light Side! It only comes up in stuff like the books or "Star Wars the Old Republic."