Everyone will stay on the island at the end of "Lost"
"We project that at least half the cast will, of their own volition, opt to stay," Sarah Ball, Newsweek, December 2009
While the cast of ABC's monumental hit would probably have liked to stay on the island and continue to collect their handsome paychecks, writers instead opted to kill everyone off in the series' finale.

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