User blog comment:Arbington/ME3 Theories/@comment-217683-20100902224839

Yeah, I agree with the curing Thane = copout thing. Some things just don't have a happy ending, and sometimes the story is so much better because of it. A tragic end (as JakePT put it) would be so much better than a contrived and artificial deus ex machina happy ending. "Surprise! There was a cure all along!" As for the Illusive Man or Cerberus curing Thane, why would they? Even if they have backups of the Lazarus project, it'd still cost a pretty penny even to just overhaul Thane's lungs, and I'm pretty sure Cerberus would run a cost-benefit analysis that wouldn't end in Thane's favor.