Wow, call me Mr.Chipper with all the death and suicide stories these days...

The actor who played Boner in the TV show Growing Pains committed suicide in Vancouver recently.  Read a short blurb about it here: http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/celebs/article.aspx?cp-documentid=23532825

The remarkable part about this story sadly wasn't that the actor had taken his own life but that he was the son of actor who played Chekov on Star Trek.  So many jokes about the roles being like father, like son or other things but making them so soon seems crass even for those of us using DarkShade

Hey Mr. Chipper, I don't understand why it's so remarkable that Boner was the son of Chekov?  I especially don't understand how that fact should overshadow his death?