By the end, we never really know for sure if Claire's mom is taken off life support.
All we know is that Claire is pregnant.
Eventually she leaves for LA, crashes and here we are.
So, is her mom still alive?

Is Hurley's dad still waiting for him to go on that road trip? Is Julliet's niece still alive and suckling? Is Jack's mom stuck with the funerary bills despite a couple of rude no-shows?

It seems there are a lot of loose ends built into the show revolving around what the rest of the world did in the aftermath of their disappearance.

Maybe one day we'll have the conclusions to everyone's story...?

They're all buried in the worldwide environmental disaster that has consumed the globe while we've been Lost.

By the end, we never really know for sure if Claire's mom is taken off life support.
All we know is that Claire is pregnant.
Eventually she leaves for LA, crashes and here we are.
So, is her mom still alive?

We will never know.One thing we do know is that Claire mother went into a coma when Claire was a young/teenager (Claire was probably 18 to 20) yet she was still in a coma when Claire became pregnant, which means that Christian must have continue to pay her mother hospital bills, which would have been expensive. So how do you suppose he was able to continue to pay so much money, without his wife finding out,or could his wife had known about Claire, and her mother, all alone?

Well, what happens when Christian dies? I figured that is when Claire's mom was taken off the tubes. If the cash cow is done, no harm in severing ties no?

I just figured that in the future that we know of where Sr. is no longer, they took Claire's mom off life support and she decides to meet the baby's future parents because of the loss of her ties to Austrailla and what not. Seems to make a bit of sense to me.

Well, Australia's medicare means that Carol wouldn't have had any medical bills... but you know, plot hole, suspension of belief, what ever...

They do seem to be building up what all these character's have waiting for them at home, Sawyer's daughter, Hurley's father, Claire's mother. Perhapes the last episode of them returning home will focus on a montage of them rejoining these missing people, hence why the writer's are writing in these plot lines now (considering season one and two's flashbacks basically use to say 'their lives sucked, they had nothing waiting for them').

Interesting that Christian died a few days before the plane crash - so for Claire's mom, both her benefactor and her daughter are gone/missing. It will be interesting to find out if she's still on life support, came out of her coma or is dead.

It seems not only do a lot of characters not know what's become of their loved ones, they also left with many broken and unresolved relationships. Claire never got to mend things with her mum and now she doesn't know if she'll ever get the chance. Charlie had a fight with his brother and walked out right before he got on the plane. Hurley's dad reached out to him and he turned his back and likely regrets it now. Kate had to leave Kevin who she loved, Sawyer left behind a child. There are all these unresolved issues between people that you know weigh on each character. Now we know Claire's because before this, she seemed completely alone.

Speaking of which, I liked how they emphasized the fact that Claire was alone much of her life. Her mother was really all she had, and she said she was a horrible kid to her and had a bad relationship. I think they went out of their way to show her isolated -- she worked alone, seemed to have no co-worker friends or other friends (we meet Rachel later, and Thomas), but at that time in her life to lose her mother was to lose everything. To add to this POV, no one was nice to her. The police officer was insensitive, her Aunt hated her, she really seemed to have no one. Thomas' betrayal had to really be painful because I'm guessing when she met him she latched on.

The one thing that would happen though is that Jack and Claire would find out about each other when they got back.

Jack's mother would find out about the bills being paid for in Australia, and would find out about Claire's mom, and after some digging would figure out that Claire is Jack's sibling and after some more digging, would find out that they were both on the plane. Even if Jack's mother didn't figure it out, I think the news agencies might. That would be a very good story for the media - the tragedy and irony and all. So if and when they get rescued, they would most likely find out that they are siblings.

I think this question has gone unanswered for a reason. I have been attempting to research Australian law to get some answers on the life-support issue. I am under the assumption that when Christian was arguing with someone at the house, that someone was Claires aunt. That's why we emphasized the conflict between those two. I'm pretty sure that Claire's mom is still on life support.

They're all buried in the worldwide environmental disaster that has consumed the globe while we've been Lost.

The outside world was still there 2 weeks earlier (in the Season 2 finale), plus the show is set in 2004 and the world is still three years later, so there has been no environmental disaster.

I'm wondering if they get off the island say 4 or 5 weeks before the final episode, and then we have an 'aftermath' storyline where we see what happens to the characters next. Does Hurley reconcile with his father? Does Claire's mother survive? Do the survivors stay in touch after their rescue? Does everyone die at the end?

I don't see why there'd be any question about the status of Claire's mother. She was obviously in a long-term care facility on the day Claire left or Ocenaic 815; no reason to think she isn't still there, in the same state of being. As her next of kin, it is Claire's decision to remove support. She's obviously not around to do that. I suppose if all the Losties have been declared dead, then the decision would be ceded to Aunt Lindsay. But there's no reason to assume she would discontinue support.

Sawyer left behind a child.

???????????? You're the 2nd person to mention in this link that Sawyer has a child? A previous poster mentioned a daughter. Sorry, I know it's not directly pertaining to this thread and I like to think of myself as remembering all details, but this one escapes me! Thanks for any help/reference! :biggrin:


Ok- never mind! I got it, Clemetine Phillips, alleged daughter of Cassidy, from The Long Con, I think. Wow- getting to be too many backstories and details for one brain to hold, thanks Lostpedia!

I think she's probably still on life support. My impression is that's what the shot of her going in so soon before the crash was supposed to show us.

I just have to say though, remember when Claire said "my mom would disown me" and Thomas said "She basically has already". I realize that when RBA was written they probably didn't have Claire's mom on life support planned out, but that was pretty cold of Thomas.