diff --git a/cura/CrashHandler.py b/cura/CrashHandler.py
index 4efcfbe1e5..e86e407902 100644
--- a/cura/CrashHandler.py
+++ b/cura/CrashHandler.py
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ from UM.Logger import Logger
 from UM.i18n import i18nCatalog
 catalog = i18nCatalog("cura")
 
+# List of exceptions that should be considered "fatal" and abort the program.
+# These are primarily some exception types that we simply cannot really recover from
+# (MemoryError and SystemError) and exceptions that indicate grave errors in the
+# code that cause the Python interpreter to fail (SyntaxError, ImportError). 
+fatal_exception_types = [
+    MemoryError,
+    SyntaxError,
+    ImportError,
+    SystemError,
+]
+
 def show(exception_type, value, tb):
     debug_mode = False
     if QCoreApplication.instance():
@@ -20,7 +31,7 @@ def show(exception_type, value, tb):
         for part in line.rstrip("\n").split("\n"):
             Logger.log("c", part)
 
-    if not debug_mode:
+    if not debug_mode and exception_type not in fatal_exception_types:
         return
 
     application = QCoreApplication.instance()
@@ -34,7 +45,7 @@ def show(exception_type, value, tb):
 
     label = QLabel(dialog)
     layout.addWidget(label)
-    label.setText(catalog.i18nc("@label", "<p>An uncaught exception has occurred!</p><p>Please use the information below to post a bug report at <a href=\"http://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues\">http://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues</a></p>"))
+    label.setText(catalog.i18nc("@label", "<p>A fatal exception has occurred that we could not recover from!</p><p>Please use the information below to post a bug report at <a href=\"http://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues\">http://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues</a></p>"))
 
     textarea = QTextEdit(dialog)
     layout.addWidget(textarea)