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Review title: Better to burn out, than fade away?
Product review: Rich kid finishes college; decides there is dignity in leading a simple life off the land; crashes around the USA for a couple of years living off the kindness of strangers; heads to Alaska; dies.Krakauer wants us to find some meaning in this. I am not sure that there is much to be learned, and I don't think that Christopher Johnson McCandless found any more dignity from dying young in Alaska, than he would have achieved from staying alive in Virginia.
