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How exactly do the Sith stop death?

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One of my annoyances in Episode III was how Anakin turned to the darkside after being convinced the Sith could stop death. I had hoped there were a plethora of deleted scenes on the DVD that would explain this (among other plot holes!), but, alas, there was none. Anakin becoming Darth Vader due to gullibility doesn't quite come across as the power-hungry Jedi I imagined when Obi-Wan later told Luke, "Vader was seduced by the darkside of the Force."

So assuming Palpatine wasn't lying, I'm trying to understand what he could have meant. When he first said it to Anakin, it almost seemed like he was talking about resurrecting someone from the dead. (He even referred to it as powers some would consider unnatural.) But, of course, if this resurrection theory is correct, Padme's life would have been restored.

So how exactly was it supposed to work? You stare at the person when they're dying and, suddenly, they begin to feel much better? I don't get it. Please tell me Anakin wasn't duped by the most ridiculous, far-fetched claim anyone could ever make without even providing proof to back it up!
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I think Palpatine is just lying here. The only way to true immortality in the SW Universe, I believe, is only though being a presence in the force(ala Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan).
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For some reason, Palpatine's words felt to me like it had some truth to it. I mean, if he can create life from the midichlorians, I would think stopping death would be easy. But I agree that with no other evidence, it seems like it was just a lie.
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He didn't know how to do it. He promised Anakin to stop Padme's death. But once Anakin turned darkside and wanted to collect on the promise, Palpatine immediately says he can't do it, but together they can figure it. I think it is a line to keep the apprentice in line. If the apprentice eventually wants to kill the master, the best way for the master to stay alive is for the apprentice to think there is "something more" to learn. Once they learned it all, the master is no longer needed. So if the master has the apprentice working with him on something immpossible, they are more likely to put off killing the master. Maybe Palpatine thinks its possible, because his master told him/tricked him into thinking he could stop death. But more likely, he knows its a lie, probably one he fell for, and he is just passing it along because he needs to keep stringing Anakin along.
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they don't, unless you count the completely non canon dark empire.


Gui Gon explains to yoda the only way to do this is to become one with the force, and the whills taught him how.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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i'd say that the sith do have ways of cheating death and the jedi would deem these ways unnatural. palpatine pretty much does what he says he can do, in dragging vader back from death by turning him into a cyborg whose parts can be replaced well beyond the normal lifespan of a fully organic person. the frankenstein homage at the end of ROTS isn't just a lark. what is frankenstein's monster but a grotesque imitation of life with a twisted fragment of a soul, which goes completely against nature, not unlike vader?
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I was going to say the same thing, that Palpy did indeed save Vader from death because of the suit. However, the person needs a will to live, which Padme did not at that point.
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