Damon & Carlton posed a very important question on a podcast not too long ago. In response to the question, "Is Claire dead?", they said "people should not be asking if she's dead, but rather, what happened to her. The better question is 'What is dead?'"
So basically what they've outright said is that what we perceive as dead on this show is not the case. Our already existing perceptions of ghosts and what happens when you die, does not apply here.
So now we are left to guess. I for one do not think it will be a supernatural explanation of events. They've been pushing the time travel plot and I'm gonna go with that. It's very possible that when people time travel to the island (which I think we can all now agree is how you get to the island), they are now existing in multiple dimensions. What I mean by that is maybe the Lost writers are subscribing to Einstein's theory of time which says that there is no separate past, present and future, that it all exists at the same time. So its possible for a planeload of people to crash in the trench off Bali in the present and die, but at the moment of crashing, their plane time travels backwards in time (the island at that time existed in the past according to Daniel's clock experiment) and now also exists in the past with survivors this time. If some of these survivors die on the island, what happens to them depends on where the island is in time. We are meant to believe! that the island is now moving in time because of the fail safe key turn. Daniel's experiment showed us that since the sky first turned purple, the island has been moving forward in time at a fast rate, so it was in the past, but shortly after that experiment, it caught up with normal time and then went ahead of it. Proof of it moving ahead was Doc Ray's body which washed up on the island dead, before he was killed on the freighter.
So, when the island was in the PAST (pre Swan destruction) and 815 survivors died on it (Boone, Arzt, Edward Mars, etc), then those people technically died BEFORE they arrived on the island. Which would mean they were never on the plane and the universe has course corrected things. If you were to go dig up Boone's grave or Edward Mars' grave NOW at this point in time on the island, you probably would not find a body. Same goes for Christian, which is why he seems to be wandering the island, alive.
If an 815 survivor died AFTER the Swan was destroyed, then it has to do with where in the past or future the island was in relation to current nonisland time. So someone like Charlie who died closer to the point in time when the island was closer to present time, could have died at a post-crash time relevant in the real world, which after the universe course corrects things, could have placed him in the present time as not dead. Which would explain how he could visit Hurley at Santa Rosa and say "I died, but I'm also here".
The people who have been visiting the Oceanic 6 (Charlie, Eko, Locke) all "died" later on after the swan implosion. Yes I know we didn't see Locke die on the island, but .... wait.
Any-hoo, that's my theory on "what is dead". We'll soon see if I'm right. You can view my past theories at my website:
http://www.scottgingold.com/lost.html
Theory by Scott Gingold
So basically what they've outright said is that what we perceive as dead on this show is not the case. Our already existing perceptions of ghosts and what happens when you die, does not apply here.
So now we are left to guess. I for one do not think it will be a supernatural explanation of events. They've been pushing the time travel plot and I'm gonna go with that. It's very possible that when people time travel to the island (which I think we can all now agree is how you get to the island), they are now existing in multiple dimensions. What I mean by that is maybe the Lost writers are subscribing to Einstein's theory of time which says that there is no separate past, present and future, that it all exists at the same time. So its possible for a planeload of people to crash in the trench off Bali in the present and die, but at the moment of crashing, their plane time travels backwards in time (the island at that time existed in the past according to Daniel's clock experiment) and now also exists in the past with survivors this time. If some of these survivors die on the island, what happens to them depends on where the island is in time. We are meant to believe! that the island is now moving in time because of the fail safe key turn. Daniel's experiment showed us that since the sky first turned purple, the island has been moving forward in time at a fast rate, so it was in the past, but shortly after that experiment, it caught up with normal time and then went ahead of it. Proof of it moving ahead was Doc Ray's body which washed up on the island dead, before he was killed on the freighter.
So, when the island was in the PAST (pre Swan destruction) and 815 survivors died on it (Boone, Arzt, Edward Mars, etc), then those people technically died BEFORE they arrived on the island. Which would mean they were never on the plane and the universe has course corrected things. If you were to go dig up Boone's grave or Edward Mars' grave NOW at this point in time on the island, you probably would not find a body. Same goes for Christian, which is why he seems to be wandering the island, alive.
If an 815 survivor died AFTER the Swan was destroyed, then it has to do with where in the past or future the island was in relation to current nonisland time. So someone like Charlie who died closer to the point in time when the island was closer to present time, could have died at a post-crash time relevant in the real world, which after the universe course corrects things, could have placed him in the present time as not dead. Which would explain how he could visit Hurley at Santa Rosa and say "I died, but I'm also here".
The people who have been visiting the Oceanic 6 (Charlie, Eko, Locke) all "died" later on after the swan implosion. Yes I know we didn't see Locke die on the island, but .... wait.
Any-hoo, that's my theory on "what is dead". We'll soon see if I'm right. You can view my past theories at my website:
http://www.scottgingold.com/lost.html
Theory by Scott Gingold
