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by EiZei 1142 days ago
Freezing to death is so unspeakably painful so that you will do anything to avoid that, in the olden days homeless people would sleep in hidden maintenance spaces or near heat exhaust vents in the most extreme cases. Dying of cold is so rare that it does not even warrant it's own category in causes of death statistics here but you could argue some of the drug/alcohol deaths might cover that.
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> Freezing to death is so unspeakably painful so that you will do anything to avoid that

Unfortunately not, it's cold but you can endure it, and it'll make you apathetic, and then it's over.

Straight up dying from cold in one go isn't worst possible way to go.

Issue is when you switch between dying and not dying. Like frostbites and so on.