Imagine there is a terminally ill cancer patient who is approaching death. A doctor says, “The patient’s suffering is so intense that he is no longer fighting death. He has lost the will to live.”
Nobody would interpret the last sentence to mean that the loss of the will to live was the cause of patient’s death. In such a scenario, the loss of the will to live would be a side effect of intense pain and suffering and a sign that death is near.
“For reasons we can’t explain, we’re losing her…well, except for the cancer…and Palpatine sucking her life out of her.”