Too much cold causes gangrene, but it also preserves you. In a social sense cold behaviour towards other is like social gangrene, which is kind of epidemic. But, when you have contracted it. Once you are dead, ironically, it preserves you. It preserves you from scavengers, those who'll feed even on necrosed tissues. Until you have the slightest existence left in you, you are always in the line. A line for consumption. A part of the food chain. Being the apex predator never helps because death is the apex predator, and life is on its mercy.
We are like a 4th grade karmachari working for this intricate foodchain, waiting to be consumed. What would one feel when one's neck is between the jaws of a predator after all those costly and time consuming treatments of one's cervical spondylosis. Material accumulation, and non material accumulation, for our safety, or sense of safety, and our basic and self-created needs. Need for food and water, for love and for something to thrust our privates against. All are baits. And all we have to do is to relish the juicy taste of the bait, till we are hunted.