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[Star Wars] Was Qui-Gon’s Stab wound in Phantom Menace really that bad?

I know he died, but it seemed like such a small hole in a non-vital area. If we also consider the cauterization factor, it seems like he could have easily recovered from it.
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It's not so much the area he was stabbed in, but the thing he was stabbed with and how he was stabbed. Cauterization works because the heat is only applied for a short amount of time, so only a small amount of tissue is damaged. That way the benefits of not bleeding outweigh the damage being done to the patient. But with a lightsaber, we are talking about an object hot enough to melt through thick blocks of metal in seconds, which is then left in Qui-Gon's body for a few seconds before being removed. Boiling water will give you third degree burns almost immediately when in contact with skin, and lightsabers burn much, much hotter than that. In all likelihood, his cause of death probably wasn't the stab itself, but rather his organs being cooked inside of him, or possibly a build-up of steam inside his body as the water in his torso boiled.