 PLOT: SPOILER: In the end of the movie the farm boy is killed by the  exploding grill.. This is explained as he was saved by the coke head  from being hit by the news van, banking on people remembering the  whole speech about the "ripple effect" of people surviving death  which lead to all this. However, the farm boy was only put into  jeopardy because of the people being alive, the news van was only  there to report on their crash, and their crash wouldnt have  happened had they died. So, to sum up, the kids life was only in  danger because they didnt die, and it was only saved because they  didnt die, thus it would cancel each other out, he was not meant to  die as he would not have died (at least not in the same way) had the  main characters gotten on the highway in the beginning of the movie.