[spinestein]

His death followed a two-year trek around North America in which McCandless sought to divest himself of the trappings of the material world and live life at its simplest.

Starving to death is one of those natural things that happens to hunter-gatherers who “live life at its simplest”.

Especially when the hunter-gatherer is a naive, new age city dweller, who doesn’t know how to hunt or gather, and thinks all that’s required to live off the land is shedding your clothes and hanging out in the woods with the squirrels.

[dfwgator]

Starving to death is one of those natural things that happens to hunter-gatherers who “live life at its simplest”.

I hear it's "euphoric."

[a_chronic_whiner]

maybe he was foraging in the wrong place?

I consider myself a hunter-gatherer of the same sort. I gather a special type of fine leaves the natives call “money”
which I can barter for tools, food and what not.