Typically most will gather and snicker and laugh and say man that Gary Coleman was a loser and look how far he fell and look how short he was, you're a loser if you are that short, he had to work as a security guard, again saying what a loser he was. I'd like to think there are others out who take a different approach....No, he wasn't an Oscar winner and what does that mean anyway? This is a tragedy. Not for us but for him. His whole life he wanted to be nothing more than normal and to have a fair shot at it like the rest of us. At the end of the day we're all just trying to put food on the table and a roof over our heads for our family. In some cases just yourself. Hollywood did a great job once again of throwing someone to the has-been isle of life just for being a kid actor and on top of that the guy couldn't grow more than a few feet because of his health. I feel bad he never got a shot at the opportunity of just being able to have a shot. Has been or human being? I choose human being and he deserves that respect just like everyone else.

The plane crashed. No one survived the crash. The island was purgatory as the church was. Ben, Desmond other characters that were not 'on the plane' died somewhere else and the 'island' is a 'collective' purgatory. Ben either died at childbirth with his mother or in the car crash whatever. Desmond died at sea which explains the comment by Jack's Dad "some before you some long after" Why is that not clear to anyone? They didn't explain the island and all the wacky stuff because it didn't happen. It was fantasy to them in the world they created. Jack asked "why"? (why did they all go to the island collectively) His Dad answered "to remember, and to let go" The sideways was the awareness that they all came to together to "move on". It's hard for most people to accept that the island wasn't real to the characters. They all died in the plane crash. The characters on the island were not ready to 'move on' and that was the world they created to work out their problems etc. DONE.