Apparently, he died for nothing..

he died because he had accepted that he had to die in order for claire and her baby to get saved...he believed that if he hadn't died, the helicopter that desmond saw in his vision wouldn't come

He got the message before he closed the door.

I didn't think about the Kate fugitive thing either. When she saw Jack at the airport, she said I have to get back to him. I thought him might be Sawyer, but now I think that someone is holding her captive sorta in return for not telling everyone who she is.

Jack said that the dead person was neither friend nor family. That would leave just Ben wouldn't it? Unless it was Locke? I think 2 of the other people that get off the island are Jin and Sun because she'll die if she has the baby there.

Charlie was purely thinking about the vision. Shutting the door seals his fate and helps Claire get off the island. Just because he knows the people aren't who they said they were does not mean that his actions are not going to ultimately help the vision come true. He is solely motivated bt getting her and Aaron off the Island.

I agree that "Him" is not Sawyer. Kate is with someone else. I think Sawyer may be in the coffin, but that doesn't jive with the obituary that says the guy was from NY. Only Michael fits that bill, and he is certainly neither "friend or family" to Jack. I think it could be Ben, because he may just leave the Island when the others look to Locke as their new leader.

My guess for the 6?

Jack
Hurley
Clair (Aaron may not be counted since he's an infant) due to Charlie fulfilling the vision.

Im stuck to come up with any more.

I think ultimately many may have left, but only six came back with the fanfare of having survived a plane crash.

Im just rambling now because I am truly Lost.

I thought I did see the guy that played Michael's name in the opening credits the other night and that did strike me as strange. I never thought it was Sawyer because I think he would have called him a friend at this point.

Sun and Jin have to be part of the 6. I don't think Clair comes back. I wonder if they're ever going to do anything with that stupid revelation that Clair and Jack are half-siblings. That makes Jack Aaron's uncle too.

Here's another oddity I just remembered from the season finale. Jack tells the other doctor why don't you call my father and see if he's drunker than I am right now. It's well know that his father is dead. I didn't get that.

Ben might come back, but he wouldn't be part of the 6 because he wasn't on the plane, neither was Juliette and I don't think she came back because we probably would have seen her with Jack at some point already.

did they allude to Kate being married when they came back last season? She was at least with someone, always assumed it was Sawyer,