Did They Make It Off the Island?

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While reading the comments on @sprinklesare4winners' post about tv shows that you could watch over and over, I was reminded of a question about a show that was mentioned. I started watching Lost when it first premiered and became very interested in the show although I assumed it would be something like seeing if these people could survive the normal things that would be encountered if you crash landed in a plane on a deserted island (searching for food, shelter, caring for the sick and injured, etc.). Of course that notion soon went out the window. I stopped watching during the "push the button or we die" phase. The excessive flashbacks had become annoying and the show to me was getting boring. I did check it out here and there after that but never to the point where I just had to watch it each week. I did watch the finale and also the Jimmy Kimmel special afterwards where he asked exactly what I was thinking which was along the line of "what just happened?" Someone at work later told me that "they all died of course. The last show was them all meeting in heaven." Well ok but is that where some of these people would have really ended up? This past week I read an article on "shows that we wish would produce a spin off" and there was Lost in the list. How would you do a spin off if they were all dead? So, if you watched it at all, do you think they all died at some point? Did they all actually die in the initial crash? Was everything that happened real or was it the product of someone's coma hallucinations? Were they all dead at the end and in heaven? Has anyone ever heard an official J.J. Abrams explanation of what really happened? I would be interested in hearing your opinions as I am still "Lost" when it comes to an explanation, lol.