Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-3581997-20150607031351/@comment-3581997-20150624173540

Nope. The movie does sort of try to play it all down, or being part of the Dark-Side brainwashing stuff. Anakin Skywalker's transformation is very poorly done in the sequels. Though we are dealing with Jedi philosophy/afterlife rules here, they seem to empathize that the good in a Jedi is what moves onto the next life, not the evil.

So the ghost we see at the end is the visage of Anakin's self that remained deep down. The rest of him that did all those terrible things has died and has no other-worldly self. I always had presumed the remaining ghost isn't the whole Anakin just what remained of his decency. Just because someone has done something unforgivable doesn't mean they don't have good in them, it just means your not going to ignore the bad for the good's sake. When Anakin dies the good is all that remains.