Per Dan Espen:
I'd much rather be found dead in a pile of snow than
waste away in a bed. Even with a few years of difference.

There's something to be said for that....

But last year we lost retired co-worker. There was heavy rain one
night and he went out to dig a drainage trench to divert water that was
getting in to his very old house.

AFIK, somebody found the body the next day.
--
Pete Cresswell