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In the afterlife timeline, most of the characters appeared to be better people than they were in life.
Kate was an innocent fugitive, Linus was a teacher, Sawyer was a cop, etc.
I think this was to show who they were. They were essentially still the same, but without the negative things of the world that shaped them into the complicated, morally ambiguous characters that they were in life. It was almost like showing who they were in their hearts without being "lost."
This goes for everyone. The events of their purgatory/alt universe lives represented a world where things were better for them, but was essentially working out the problems of their other life.
That's why I think Sun and Jin were unmarried (all their early marriage problems), and Jack had a son (father issues), and Locke was in a wheelchair learning to let go of punishing himself for what he did to his father (rather than be punished in a wheelchair for what his father did to him).
Even Desmond was spending some time, with Widmore as a father figure, before he was enlightened.
Faraday was a musician, which was what he wanted to be before his mother forced him into physics.
The list goes on really.
Very cleverly crafted.
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