I love Stephen King, and I think The Stand is my favorite. In the unabridged version, there are a bunch of vignettes about people who survived the initial Superflu but died of accidents or other causes later. One man died of a heroin overdose, one man died while jogging incessantly, one boy fell down a well, etc.
There was one woman, married with a young son. She was a spoiled brat who resented her husband and her baby. They both died of the superflu, and she put their bodies in the storage freezer of her apt.
She would then go down there to “check” on them several times a day (the implication being that she was gloating) and on the last visit found the door had locked behind her and there was no way out.
The phrase was “It was too warm to freeze but not too cold to starve, so (spoiled brat) died in the company of her family after all.”
I got the “too warm to freeze part” but “not too cold to starve” makes my brain twist. Is King saying she ended up eating the corpses of her family in an attempt to survive?
Maybe I’m just dense, but I cannot understand that last part for the life of me.