How Heat and Cold Hurt You In an emergency, heat and cold are some of the biggest causes of pain and suffering. In order to prepare for heat-related and cold-related emergencies, we need to understand how heat and cold can hurt or kill you. One of the many things you KNOW to be true, but is in fact false, is this fact: The normal human body's temperature is 98.6 … [Read more...] about How To Die: Get Too Cold / Too Hot