Into the irony?

"I didn't know what I was going to say. How do you tell someone that their child is dead?" ( Krakauer 102).

    This quote exemplifies how bad Christopher McCandless's death was, and how it not only impacted him but others as well. The context of this quote is what really gives this quote more importance; it came from McCandless's half brother Samuel. At first when Samuel heard about the story about the hiker being found dead, the thought of it being his brother never came into his mind. However once he did realize it, he was not worried about himself but more worried about Christopher's parents, how that it would have a much greater impact on them then him. I find this quote ironic since McCandless leaving was mainly due to how his parents were and that in his letter to his sister he 'divorced' them as his parents. Although Christopher may have not cared about his parents anymore his parents may still have cared about him a lot, without him even knowing. (We do know however that his sister did care about him a lot)