I have typically considered heating plus cooling a necessity.
If it gets too freezing inside your home, you can freeze to death.
Particularly vulnerable to such a death are the elderly plus the infirm, however often, older people are isolated plus if their furnace stops toiling, they don’t guess what to do. If they also happen to be poor, they may not realize that they can still get heating oil or furnace repair through several private plus government programs. The same is true where I live, in the south. If someone’s cooling system is broken or they can’t afford their power bill, they will often try to live without cooling system. Without a/c, though,people are seriously vulnerable to decreased health maintenance or even death. That is why I was so surprised when I became friends with a guy who lives in another country, and despite the fact that he lives in a very tropical weather conditions, he does not use cooling system. She insists that recycled cooling system is not healthy for people, plus he refuses to use the brand modern mini split a/c that is hanging above his door frame in his living room. I sometimes think a bit sorry for his spouse because I suppose he would very appreciate a little a/c now plus then. She does do things to give cooling in other ways. They both go to the beach plus swim. The houses are built so that they have a cross breeze! Neighbors have what are called dipping pools. All of these can cool you off without cooling system, plus he seems healthy enough, but it still astonishes myself and others how the people I was with and I can have such unusual outlooks in many unusual countries.