It's not that you can't be killed through suicide, it's that you can't die until the Island lets you.

__________________


Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt!

Exactly how I understood it
That is why Locke didn't die when Ben shot him as well at the DMG (dharma mass grave) Walt appeared to him and told him he still had work to do. If we count the missing pieces When Christen Shepard tells Vincent to wake Jack up after the plance crash.. He states that he still has work to do..

__________________
Please don't give up, Des. Because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for
you. Always. I love you, Pen

DESMOND: I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you!
PENNY: I love you too.
DESMOND: I don't know where I am, but--
PENNY: I'll find you, Des--
DESMOND: --I promise--
PENNY: --no matter what--
DESMOND: --I'll come back to you--
PENNY: --I won't give up--
BOTH: I promise. I love you.

No one ever said that people who have been to the island can't commit suicide. I think the point is that you can't kill yourself until your work is done. Charlie's work was done. Part of his work was dying, so yeah, he's dead. I liked him too...at least he had the best death scene of all...much more dramatic than Karl's...poor guy. He was actually starting to grow out of that super dork phase too.

The guy that was in the station with Kelvin....Radzinsky killed himself. So suicide is possible.

I believe Charlie's death was needed by the Island somehow, because no matter how many times Desmond saved him, there was always another death coming for him.

Once you leave the island you can not kill youself is kinda how I saw it, Like Jack trying to jump off the bridge and test fate

__________________
Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.

Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?

Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

Thank you! ^^^ lol
even though i'm seeing what other peopler are saying about you can't die until the island "is done with you"

__________________
~*~CHRISTINE~*~

yeah thats how i think it works too, jack was distracted by a car crash and michael by the news flash on tv...

This reminds me of the conversation about everyone needing a constant. I don't think this suicide thing is an all encompassing to everyone. Like Sombra1230 said earlier^^^, and I totally agree with you, Charlie's work was done.

__________________
" We kinda like knew that forever ago." -Hurley SE4EP8

You've crystallized my thoughts perfectly.

Can a person be "mostly" dead (read it like Billy Crystal)? What I mean is if you subscribe to a multiple timeline thought and you believe that times are different ---> the island is in one time and the real world/freighter is in another time, if you die on the island (which is the past) but you are still alive in the real world time (which could be seen as the future) can you be "half alive" and still exist in one half of the time, and therefore somehow communicate with people, feel an odd need to return to the island (in the real world), etc.?

__________________