Life and death
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"It's sort of understood on Lost that that's what you sign up for. There's going to be constant character turnover, because the stakes on the Island are life-or-death." | ” |
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Life
Off the Island
- Jack saves Sarah's life. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
Sarah after being healed. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
Aaron was born on the Island. ("Do No Harm")
- Charlotte Malkin apparently returns from the dead after drowning. ("?")
- Claire refuses Christian Shephard's offer to help her mother die. ("Par Avion")
- Rachel survives cancer, and gives birth to a son. ("One of Us")
- Jin refused to kill Byung Han, and beat him to save his life. ("...In Translation")
- Jin was also ordered to kill Jae Lee, but beat him instead of killing him. ("The Glass Ballerina")
- Jack nearly attempts suicide after the Island by jumping off a bridge. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Sun gives birth to a daughter Ji Yeon Kwon after leaving the island. ("Ji Yeon")
- Michael tries to commit suicide multiple times, but is stopped by the Island. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
On the Island
- Jack resuscitates Rose shortly after the crash. ("Pilot, Part 1")
- Jack saves Claire and Hurley by having them move from under the falling plane wing. ("Pilot, Part 1")
- Shannon tells Boone that she thinks the (now dead) man from the airport saved their lives by not letting them have their seats in first class. ("Pilot, Part 1")
- Jack tells Kate that he doesn't need to know what she did, saying, "It doesn’t matter who we were, what we did before this…three days ago we died; we should all be able to start over." ("Tabula Rasa")
- Jack saves Charlie's life after he's been hanged. ("All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
- Michael and Locke save Walt from a polar bear. ("Special")
- Locke saves Desmond from committing suicide. ("Deus Ex Machina") , ("Live Together, Die Alone")
- Claire has a baby boy, Aaron, on the Island. ("Do No Harm")
- Sawyer saves Michael's life after the destruction of the raft, by using CPR. ("Adrift")
- Sun is pregnant, and may eventually give birth to a new life. ("The Whole Truth")
- Hurley almost jumps off a cliff when influenced by Dave. ("Dave")
- Rose believes she was healed from cancer by the Island. ("S.O.S.")
- Charlie and Locke save Eko from the polar bear cave. ("Further Instructions")
- Desmond saves Charlie from electrocution. ("Every Man for Himself")
- Jack performed life-saving spinal surgery on Ben. ("Not in Portland")
- Desmond saves Charlie and Claire from drowning. In Desmond's vision, Charlie died while attempting to save Claire. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
- Desmond saves Charlie from being pummeled against rocks. ("Par Avion")
- Desmond saves Charlie being shot by a crossbow connected to a booby trap. ("Catch-22")
- Locke holds a gun to his head but is stopped by an apparition of Walt. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Daniel saves Desmond from falling victim to "side-effects" of travel to & from the Island. ("The Constant")
Death
An unknown number of DHARMA Initiative members who died in the Purge. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
Jae Lee commits suicide. ("The Glass Ballerina")
Ana Lucia kills Jason for revenge. ("Collision")
Goodwin killed by Ana Lucia. ("The Other 48 Days")
Eko is killed by the Monster. ("The Cost of Living")
Anthony Cooper is killed by Sawyer. ("The Brig")
Doc Ray's body washes up on the beach, after he had been killed by Keamy. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
Jack attends the funeral of an unknown person. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Pre-crash deaths
- Magnus Hanso dies, and is buried underneath the Black Rock. (The Lost Experience)
- Based on estimates by Locke and Jack, Adam and Eve die around this time. ("House of the Rising Sun")
- Emily Linus dies shortly after giving birth to Ben. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
- Sawyer's father kills his mother Mary and then shoots himself in a murder-suicide. ("Outlaws")
- Eko shoots an old man to save Yemi from having to do so. ("The 23rd Psalm")
- Two unnamed DHARMA members in the polar bear cave die of an unknown cause around this time. ("Further Instructions")
- Roger Linus is gassed to death by Ben. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
- The other members of the DHARMA Initiative, roughly 40 in total and including Horace and Olivia Goodspeed, die in the Purge. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
- Danielle Rousseau kills the other members of her Science team, including her husband Robert claiming that they had the "sickness". ("Solitary")
- Theresa breaks her neck while falling down the stairs. ("Deus Ex Machina")
- Sayid is part of a firing squad executing an unnamed would-be bomber. ("Outlaws")
- The man wearing red shoes is killed by falling scaffolding. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
- Sayid shoots Omar. ("Solitary")
- Sam Toomey commits suicide. ("Numbers")
- Peter Talbot is killed under mysterious circumstances, presumably by Anthony Cooper. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
- Radzinsky allegedly commits suicide by shotgun. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
- Libby says that her husband David died after an illness. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
- Adam Rutherford dies from injuries sustained in a car accident as a result of Jack choosing to save his wife-to-be, Sarah, instead. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") ("Abandoned")
- Kate blows up Wayne Janssen while he sleeps. ("What Kate Did")
- Dr. Edmund Burke is hit by a bus. ("Not in Portland")
- Eko kills two Moroccan drug dealers. ("The 23rd Psalm")
- Yemi dies in the Army attack on Eko's gang, Olu dies as well. Goldie flies the plane, it crashes on the Island, where he dies. ("The 23rd Psalm")
- Eko kills Emeka and his gang with a machete. ("The Cost of Living")
- Tom Brennan is mistakenly shot by a security guard in the car Kate is using as a getaway vehicle. ("Born to Run")
- Jae Lee commits suicide. ("The Glass Ballerina")
- Sabine dies of complications in her pregnancy. ("One of Us") Juliet has seen 8 Other women, including Henrietta, ("The Other Woman") die of complications in their pregnancy. ("D.O.C.")
- Tito Reyes dies of a heart attack. ("Numbers") Father Aguillar is struck by lightning at his subsequent funeral (as reported by Hurley, not shown on screen). ("Numbers")
- Jack's operation on Angelo Busoni fails and Busoni dies. ("The Hunting Party")
- Tricia Tanaka and her camera man are killed when a meteorite strikes Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack with them inside. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
- An unknown person commits suicide by leaping off the top of Hurley's accountancy firm. ("Numbers")
- Christian Shephard, performing surgery while drunk, severs pregnant patient Beth's hepatic artery, causing her to bleed to death. ("All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
- Assuming that the basis of Ben's fake story is true, the real Henry Gale crashed on the Island in his hot air balloon and soon dies. ("One of Them")
- Ana Lucia murders Jason McCormack. ("Collision")
- Susan Lloyd dies of a blood disorder. ("Special")
- Christian Shephard dies of a heart attack in Sydney. ("White Rabbit")
- Sawyer kills Frank Duckett, thinking that he's the real Sawyer. ("Outlaws")
- Howard L. Zukerman is poisoned by Nikki and Paulo. ("Exposé")
- Essam Tasir commits suicide. ("The Greater Good")
- Kelvin Joe Inman is accidentally killed by Desmond, an event which inadvertantly causes the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
Post-crash deaths
- Roughly 253 people die in the initial crash of Oceanic Flight 815. The only survivors are in the middle section, the tail and the cockpit, all of which land in different places. ("Pilot, Part 1"), ("The Other 48 Days")
- Gary Troup is sucked into one of the plane's engine and dies. ("Pilot, Part 1")
- Two unnamed Others are killed by Eko. ("The Other 48 Days")
- Captain Seth Norris is killed by The Monster. ("Pilot, Part 1")
- Three unnamed tailies die from injuries sustained in the crash. ("The Other 48 Days")
- Edward Mars, severely injured in the crash, is euthanized by Jack. ("Tabula Rasa")
- Donald dies from an infection of a leg injury. ("The Other 48 Days")
- Barbara Joanna Miller drowns in a riptide. ("White Rabbit")
- Ana Lucia kills an unnamed female Other. ("The Other 48 Days")
- Nathan is killed by Goodwin. ("The Other 48 Days")
- Goodwin Stanhope is killed by Ana Lucia. ("The Other 48 Days")
- Scott Jackson is killed, presumably by Ethan. ("Homecoming")
- Ethan Rom is shot by Charlie. ("Homecoming")
- Boone Carlyle falls in the drug smugglers' plane and dies of an internal hemorrhage. ("Do No Harm")
- Dr. Leslie Arzt is blown up while handling dynamite. ("Exodus, Part 2")
- Shannon Rutherford is accidentally shot by Ana Lucia. ("Abandoned")
- Ana Lucia Cortez is shot in the chest by Michael. ("Two for the Road")
- Libby is accidentally shot by Michael ("Two for the Road") and later dies from her injuries. ("?")
- Sawyer kills an unnamed Other. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
- Colleen Pickett is shot by Sun. ("The Glass Ballerina")
- Eko Tunde is killed by the Monster. ("The Cost of Living")
- Danny Pickett is shot by Juliet. ("Not in Portland")
- Bea Klugh is shot by Mikhail at her request. ("Enter 77")
- Nikki Fernandez and Paulo are accidentally buried alive, having been found paralysed and presumed dead. ("Exposé")
- Anthony Cooper is strangled to death by Sawyer in the brig of the Black Rock. ("The Brig")
- Three unnamed Others plus Ivan, and Diane are blown up in the ambush on the Losties' camp by Sayid and Bernard.1("Through the Looking Glass")
- Matthew and Luke are shot by Jin. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Hurley runs Ryan Pryce over with the DHARMA van. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Sayid breaks Jason's neck with his legs. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Sawyer shoots Tom, even though he had surrendered. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Greta and Bonnie are both shot by Mikhail in the Looking Glass. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Mikhail Bakunin is killed when he detonates a grenade outside the Looking Glass. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Charlie Pace drowns as a result of the detonation. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Naomi Dorrit dies of a stab wound inflicted by Locke throwing a knife in her back. ("Through the Looking Glass"), ("The Beginning of the End")
- Brandon dies after "acting crazy" when he and Minkowski attempt to reach the Island. ("The Constant")
- George Minkowski dies after experiencing the effects of time travel. ("The Constant")
- Regina commits suicide by jumping from the Kahana into the ocean. ("Ji Yeon")
- Karl is shot by Keamy or one of his men. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
- Danielle Rousseau is shot by Keamy or one of his men. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
- Doug, Jerome and an unnamed female crash survivor are killed by Keamy or one of his men. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
- Alex Rousseau is executed by Keamy. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
- Mayhew is attacked by The Monster, ("The Shape of Things to Come") and later dies from his injuries. ("Cabin Fever")
- Doc Ray's throat is slit by Keamy, who throws his body into the ocean. ("Cabin Fever") It had washed up on the island two days before. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
- Captain Gault is shot dead by Keamy. ("Cabin Fever")
Post-island deaths
- Jin-Soo Kwon presumably dies under unknown circumstances. ("Ji Yeon")
- Ben kills at least one of the Bedouins who attack him in the Sahara Desert. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
- Nadia is killed by Ishmael Bakir, under Charles Widmore's orders. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
- Ishmael Bakir is killed by Sayid. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
- Sayid works as an assassin for Ben and shoots Mr. Avellino on a golf course. ("The Economist")
- Sayid kills Elsa. ("The Economist")
- Jack goes to an otherwise unattended funeral of an unnamed person connected to both him and Kate. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Footnotes
Note 1: It is implied by Damon Lindelof during the August 2nd, 2007 podcast and in the World of the Others special that Isabel is also killed during this attack.
Main cast kill count
This lists the known direct kills committed by the main Lostie characters actually shown in an episode, whether on or off the Island. It does not include kills that are merely referenced in dialogue (for example, Sayid telling Charlie about how he was a member of a firing squad in Iraq). ("Outlaws")
| Main Character | Off the Island | On the Island | Total kill count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eko |
|
| 9 |
| Sayid |
| 8 | |
| Sawyer |
|
| 4 |
| Ana Lucia |
| 4 | |
| Bernard | No known kills |
| 2 |
| Jin | No known kills | 2 | |
| Michael | No known kills | 2 | |
| Ben | 2 | ||
| Kate | No known kills | 1 | |
| Locke | No known kills | 1 | |
| Charlie | No known kills |
| 1 |
| Hurley | No known kills | 1 | |
| Juliet | No known kills | 1 | |
| Desmond | No known kills | 1 | |
| Sun | No known kills | 1 | |
| Nikki and Paulo | No known kills | 1 | |
| Jack | No known kills |
| 1 |
See also
- A-Missions
- Body count
- Car accidents
- Crimes of the Islanders
- Fights and attacks
- Funerals
- Last words on wikiquote
- Rivalries
- Weapons

