You're whipsawing me. A while back you said the second law was the mother of all Murphy's Laws. Now you show that the second law is a good buddy because we can use it to get energy to do what we want. You're not naive.
Life is full of stuff that can be good and bad.
We can make machines that make other machines, machines that mow lawns, move mountains, and go to the moon. Every organic chemical of the 10,000 different kinds in our bodies is metastable, synthesized by a nonspontaneous reaction and only kept from instant oxidation in air by activation energies. All of the thousands of biochemical systems that run our bodies are maintained and regulated by feedback subsystems, many composed of complex substances. These metabolic and synthetic processes are also governed by feedback subsystems. That isn't about death, just about less bad things that hit us.