Let me just add that dying in the arctic would be a lot more tolerable; you'd slowly feel a debilitating numbness spread through your body as you drift off into a reasonably comfortable sleep from which you'll never wake up. In the desert, you'd endure hours of blistering and bubbling skin as the sun tears into you, dehydrating you to the point of insanity as your body temperature reaches about 45c and you finally burn to death. No, gimmie Sir G's northern Canada any day