Not just bees, it's true of all insects.

Consequently, the amount of oxygen in the air determines how big bugs can grow. Get too big, and the oxygen can't diffuse into the body fast enough. This even shows up in the fossil records, with larger bugs being found alongside evidence of eras that had more oxygen in the atmosphere.

You wouldn't not have a car.

You wouldn't not have a handbag.

You wouldn't not have a television.

You wouldn't not have lungs.

Lacking lungs is not having them.

Not having lungs is against the law.

Lunglessness, it's a crime.

They also have no blood or blood vessels, just a little heart and blood-like stuff splashing around.

To bee, or not to bee, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The stings and sparrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep

No more; and by a sleep, to say we end

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks

That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,

To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the buzz,

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,

When we have fluttered off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause.

Just let the old ticker get some time off.

If they "survived the fire" then they probably dont die from oxygen depravation or at least not quickly.

Yeah, and if you pluck a chicken, it will be a human, because it's featherless and stands on two legs.

If you like reading, maybe a half-way solution could be achieved with book lungs like a spider.

Then, when your spouse hugs you, they’ll have beauty in their eye.

No because you’re likely too big (no offense) :(

I think insects have little holes all over their bodies, in which air gets inside by itself through some physics shenanigans. It doesn’t need to be actively sucked in like with lungs, it just happens because they’re so small.

This method doesn’t scale up though since if you’re bigger, you need more air, and having little holes all over your body won’t cut it. Thats when you know you need lungs, and that’s why you don’t see insects the size of a dog these days (thankfully).

There used to be times in the Earth’s history (Carboniferous) where the air’s composition was different though, and since it had more oxygen in it, insects could grow a lot larger.

That is almost how it works, but to really become a bee you'll have to turn the lungs into wings. Good luck. I'm looking forward to seeing the result.