No, though not for any lack of effort on the part of your padawan. Obi-Wan sliced me cleanly in two and left me for dead.

[He slides off the bed and onto the floor with silent feet, his cybernetics making no noise even as he walks across the floor, a force of habit long since ingrained into the Sith Lord.]

But I survived. My anger and hate gave me strength in the Dark Side, the desire for revenge against him strong enough to allow me to live.

[As his master would have said, the Dark Side was a path to many things other people would have found unnatural.]