Yeah, maybe he didn't know. Or he didn't listen.

"Affluent upbringing" or in more plain terms "spoiled kid who always wants to do 'crazy' stuff because he knows dad will be there with the check-book/lawyer to bail him out". (Of course it's more complicated than that, but to the outside, that's what it looks like)

Well, you can't have your dad bail out a bear. You can't live off the land if you can't tell the difference between an orange and a grapefruit in a supermarket. (Edit: the 'theories of malnutrition' on his wiki page are a very good summary of theories, and a lot of things we take for granted in our day to day)

I don't see any point in glorifying people who died for doing something (obviously) stupid who had multiple chances to give up and absolutely zero sense of foresight.

Or he did know them, but choose to go his way till the end. Instead of crawling back to the society he tried to run away from.

So understandable a bit. (if thats the right version)