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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Star Wars] How did Darth Maul survive bring cut in half and falling down a massive pit while Qui Gon Jinn got sabered in the chest and died? Wouldn't the saber have cauterize the wound and prevented him from bleeding out long enough to get him to a doctor?
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Everyone is answering with medical concepts, but there's a deeper answer: Maul was willing to tap into the dark side of the Force to keep himself unnaturally alive, whereas Qui-Gon instead accepted his death and proceeded to supersede it as a Force Spirit.