You might use a semicolon or newline instead of &&, since you want to exit whether or not echo succeeds (though I'm not sure what would make it fail).
Programming in a shell means using lots of little commands (some built-in commands, some tiny programs) that do one thing well and connecting them with file redirection, exit code logic and other glue.
It may seem weird if you're used to languages where everything is done using functions or methods, but you get used to it.
This is a very close function to perl's "die" (but with function name):
function die
{
local message=$1
[ -z "$message" ] && message="Died"
echo "$message at ${BASH_SOURCE[1]}:${FUNCNAME[1]} line ${BASH_LINENO[0]}." >&2
exit 1
}
And bash way of dying if built-in function is failed (with function name)
function die
{
local message=$1
[ -z "$message" ] && message="Died"
echo "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}: line ${BASH_LINENO[0]}: ${FUNCNAME[1]}: $message." >&2
exit 1
}
So, Bash is keeping all needed info in several environment variables:
LINENO - current executed line number
FUNCNAME - call stack of functions, first element (index 0) is current function, second (index 1) is function that called current function
BASH_LINENO - call stack of line numbers, where corresponding FUNCNAME was called
BASH_SOURCE - array of source file, where corresponfing FUNCNAME is stored