If Ben is 'supposed' to live then he will. Either Jin will save him or The Island will save him just as it did John Locke when Ben shot him and left him in the pit of dead bodies. Did the writers intend for us to start feeling sorry for Ben with this episode? Because while Little Ben is cute and everything but I still can't feel bad that he was shot because he grows up to be such a manipulative liar, murderer, and all around evil guy....I think. At this moment. Till TPTB prove otherwise. AHHHH my brain aches just thinking about it all!