[Kiowa Warrior]

I love how if you look up Jeremy Bentham on Wikipedia in the profile box to the right, it states that he was influenced by John Locke and David Hume!

If it is a fake Locke that's fine, and for the people that question such a plot move - such a Deus Ex Machina to explain Locke's 'death' if you will - I'd simply argue that Lost has given us far more improbable things than that!

I do like the theory that Ben has helped stage the funeral to get Jack motivated in order to go back, and since Ben is a master at reading people he may well have known that there was a big possibility that Jack would go back to the funeral home to see Locke's body after finding out that he had died...who knows, maybe the funeral parlar director/worker that Jack spoke to when he saw the coffin in the S3 finale worked for Ben and reported back. Or Ben had the whole place under survaillence in case any of the O6 showed up.

'Take me forward, I entreat you, to the future -- do not let me go back to the past.'

Something Bentham was quoted as saying...anything to do with time travel and the idea that Locke may not be really dead - no matter how tenuous - is to be welcomed after all!