Six Seven make it back: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Aaron & Desmond
Who is in the casket? Locke

“Losties”
Dr. Leslie Arzt - DEAD
Kate Austen - Makes it back. Needs to return.
Dr. Juliet Burke - She should die.
Boone Carlyle - DEAD
Ana Lucia Cortez - DEAD
Michael Dawson - DEAD
Mr. Eko - DEAD
Nikki Fernandez - DEAD
James “Sawyer” Ford - Will die on the island. Kate chose Jack and Claire died. Nobody for him.
Rose Henderson - redshirt
Sayid Jarrah - Makes it back as a puppet for Ben. Nothing left to live for. Will die back on the island.
Jin Kwon - We’re supposed to think he’s dead, but why would a raft be nearby if not to save him?
Sun Kwon - She and the baby survive but she becomes vengeful and evil.
Libby - DEAD
Aaron Littleton - Goes back with Kate.
Claire Littleton - already DEAD
Walt Lloyd - Widmore or Ben is going to kidnap him.
John Locke - Is he Jacob?
Edward Mars - DEAD
Bernard Nadler - redshirt
Charlie Pace - DEAD
Paulo - DEAD
Hugo “Hurley” Reyes - Makes it back, but has to return to the island.
Shannon Rutherford - DEAD
Dr. Jack Shephard - Makes it back suicidally guilty. Needs to return.

“Others”
Dr. Richard Alpert - Is he a ghost?
Mikhail “Patchy” Bakunin - DEAD
Cindy Chandler - brainwashed redshirt
Goodwin - DEAD
Isabel - Creepy should die.
Jacob - Is he Locke in the far ahead future?
Karl - DEAD
Bea Klugh - DEAD
Ben Linus - Can’t go back?
Colleen Pickett - DEAD
Danny Pickett - DEAD
Dr. Ethan Rom - DEAD
Alexandra “Alex” Linus/Rousseau - DEAD
Tom - DEAD
Zack and Emma - Leave the babies and children alone.

“Freighters”
Charlotte - She was a Dharma baby? What?
Naomi Dorrit - DEAD
Faraday - Stuck on a raft with redshirts? Don’t be fooled. He’s not a good guy. Needs to die.
Frank - Seems like a good guy but I think he’ll die because he knows about the island.
Keamy - DEAD
Miles - Handy guy on this island but we know he’s disloyal. Gotta die.

Other characters
Anthony Cooper - DEAD
Desmond Hume - Hiding with Penny. Has to return to be the body in the cave?
Kelvin Joe Inman - DEAD
Danielle Rousseau - DEAD
Dr. Christian Shephard - A ghost
Penelope “Penny” Widmore - Hiding with Desmond. The body in the cave in the future?
Charles Widmore - I have no idea.

Pondering - What if . . . the flash forwards are still flashbacks? What if the island is in the future and Ben only knows what he knows because he uses a time portal (that is located someplace cold enough for a polar bear to survive) to slip back and forward trying to “correct” the things that don’t go the way he prefers? Desmond isn’t having flash forwards, he is having flashbacks of experiences he skipped. Adam and Eve in the cave are two of the people currently alive. Desmond and Penny? The series will end where it began, with the plane crashing on the island. The theme of the series is course correction.

More pondering - Is the island really an island? Is it a ship? A spaceship? Is Richard an alien?