Was Eko destined to die?

[Mallet]

So I was watching the episode when Eko died (and the one before it) and I got to thinking about how John went to all that trouble and risk to save Eko in one episode and then in the next Eko is killed.

It kind of reminded me of Desmond trying to save Charlie. Every time he saved him from death, something else would come along and (try to) kill him.

Could the same process have been at work with Eko? Just without Locke (or anyone else) realizing it?

Was Eko meant to die, like Charlie was, so even if they could somehow have saved him from Smoke Monster, then he would have died some other way a day or two later?

And does this then apply to everyone on the island? If you are supposed to die and then somehow get saved, are you forever on the chopping block? Is it like the movie "Final Destination"?

 

[DeafPoet]

Well I think the question goes to the root of whether it's destiny or free will that determines the events on your life on Lost. I personally don't think Eko was destined to die any more or less than Charlie was. Why is that? Well, it's kind of a tree in the woods analogy. If someone's destined to die, but nobody's around to have visions of it, is it really destiny?

Basically, we know Charlie's goose was cooked because Desmond was having premonitions. Could the same thing have been at work for Eko? Sure, but we'll never know because there wasn't anyone reporting on those events.

 

[The Evil Dead]

Maybe it was always his fate to be involved with the destruction of the Swan station, and to cause whatever it was that turned the sky purple. The smoke monster leaves him alive in season two, the Swan station goes kaplookie, the smoke monster kills Eko in season three.

 

[sidious618]

Did they just decide to kill Eko or did the actor want to leave?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The actor wanted to leave.

 

[Starbreaker]

Let's hire a bunch of people who only want to spend one season on the show and have it entirely devoted to them and then just kill them off.

Still a pretty cool character though.

 

[Mr Light]

I think it's more than coincidence that the two people who tried to break into the Swan (Charlie and Eko) were killed shortly thereafter by the Island... while the two inside the Swan (Locke and Desmond) were blessed with super powers.

Eko was only going to be around to the end of the third season in the original plan, the actor just asked to be left out earlier.

This runs against my personal theory that the Island WANTED the Swan destroyed, however. Since it was humans interfering with its pocket black hole and threatening to swallow the world in a black hole.