QUOTE (Devout Catalyst @ May 17 2005, 06:19 PM)
It's not her dying in and of itself that I object to. It's her willing herself to die...
It is one thing to give children up for adoption, especially to save their lives; it is quite another to die just after they're born, on purpose.
Devout Catalyst, have you never seen movies, or tv shows, or read books that talk about people "losing the will to live"? I'm hoping you are a real "youngling" or perhaps English is not your first language because it's boggling my mind that you are
misinterpreting "losing the will to live" as "willing [one]self to die".
THAT IS
NOT WHAT THAT MEANS IN MEDICAL TERMS.
And not just Devout Catalyst, but to everyone who seems to be misunderstanding what the term means (
SWIU, I'm shocked, but you're still cool
), here's the deal:
People "lose the will to live" each and everyday on this planet in this solar system in this galaxy. It is
not that they "will themselves to die", it is more that the natural instinct to live and survive is gone, usually due to some kind of emotional heartbreak or feeling of no longer "mattering" to anyone - there are also other extreme reasons.
It is medically documented that quite often widows and widowers die shortly after their spouse and they seemingly have nothing wrong with them. No "natural causes" can be attributed to the death, it's an overwhelmingly emotional response to unbearable grief and loss. Their spirit (if you will) gives up and they die... in their sleep usually, but that's an aside.
Another typical example is an old person who has outlived all their family and friends and feels they "have no one left". They are old, yes, but they are reasonably healthy yet they die because they no longer feel a sense of "wanting to be alive".
There are many of other examples of this, but these are the most common.
Having said all that, I agree with all of you who have mentioned that having the twins (or even 1 child) should have given Padme something/someone for which to live. But as we know, George is not at all capable of writing emotions and he certainly would is NOT good at writing about the emotions of a woman: who is force-choked by her husband, the father of her baby; and then [she] gives birth under duress.
IMO, he should not have tried to tackle it. The results are what we saw on screen.