An idea struck me like a lightning from a blue sky; What if Darth Vader never died? - I don't remember talking about it here, but all things concidered, there is a good chance he did survive; While there is no doubt that the ending of the Return of the Jedi was one of the most memorable movie endings before and since. And in the books especially, one can truly understand how much it meant for Luke that he could still feel the good in his Father, that he could save him, but apparently he died in the hangar, before Luke managed to drag him in the ship and escape. But that scene could be interpreted in more than one way. Luke returns to Endor with Vaders body, and builds a funeral pyre for Vader and lits the body on fire, same type of funeral as Qui-Gon had. Or - Luke escapes the Deathstar with Vader still barely alive, and keeps it a secret from his friends, nobody would understand him. Luke only pretends to have a funeral for his father, by burning his suit. This way there would be no doubt that the Emperor was defeated, and nobody, not even Han and Leia would ever question Vaders death. Luke would visit his father secretly for as long as Anakin lived. "For as long as Anaking lived" - leads me to wonder if Anakin could've lived old enough to be in the new trilogy. If anything like this even happened, then my answer would be; yes. Since; Anakin was supposedly born from the force itself, thus making him an exception, it would be foolish to think that he had the same life span as Obi-Wan. He would now be a cyborg.