...sure. Fire ants.. nah... it'd take them a lot longer to devour a person. So, my question would be about being able to have such self control that I could perform something akin to Gary Busey's cahracter in Lethal Weapon. I could place my hand into a fire and hold it there in spite of pain and fear, even while my skin is smoldering and crisping. That is something I'd like to be able to ...

... into. Nope! You should not be in a position where you might want that value, which should be a dead variable anyway. In the bad old days of game playing under F66 such equivalences were one way of looking at the bit configuration of a real, or taking several cahracters out of a packed word, etc. All nonconforming and totally reliant on the whims of the compiler of the day.