So lets assume, maybe Vader can still breathe, just not well with his fried lungs, but fast foreward to ROTJ...."Luke, help me take this mask off.....but you'll die".
The whole breathing thing is a pretty significant part of the Vader persona, it would have been nice to accurately portray the person going into the suit as not being able to breath on his own without his mask dontcha think?.
That little lack of detail to Vaders condition in ROTS seems like a pretty big contradiction.