Spoiler: The paradoxes (which they've thusfar ardently avoided) become altogether impossible to sort through if Ben is actually dead. I will be VERY disappointed if he actually is dead and this creates an alternate timeline in which Ben never does anything, the purge doesn't happen, Dharma continues. It'd be a hell of a waste of years of development, and so I think the Island will have Ben well in hand.
I mean, seriously. If Ben dies, then he doesn't get to wake up and face Locke. Or we get one timeline that living Ben, Jin and Locke are stuck in and other timeline that the "Dharma" losties are stuck in where Sayid has murdered Ben. It's too messy and too ridiculous. I don't think it's gonna play out like that.
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