User blog comment:Icy44266/Will thane be cured in ME3?/@comment-1330527-20110109063826/@comment-217683-20110109064454

Again though, I really hope not. It'll really take too much away from the story, IMO. And it just doesn't sound like something BioWare would do anyways. I mean, in the first game, someone had to die. There was no decision to keep both Ashley and Kaidan alive.

It doesn't make sense to make Thane's fate decision based, because then he'd never die. Even people who aren't huge Than fans aren't going to willingly do away with a useful squad member. I keep saying it, and I'll say it again: Sometimes there have to be bad things like this that happen in stories. Sometimes beloved characters die. We shouldn't be too surprised if (when?) it happens to Thane. It is, after all, an integral part of his character that was known from the get-go. If everyone lives and nothing bad happens, it's BORING. I want a more-or-less realistic story, not some rainbows-and-butterflies fairy tale where nobody ever dies!