Curious -- What do you do when a sim dies?

[Janna]

One of my sim families has reached the point where the original members are going to die.  Andriana is an elder and her bar is full, so I am figuring that means she can die any day.

Which has me wondering, what happens?  I know the basics, but what about a tombstone?  I have been considering a family graveyard, where I can put all of the members as they die, but how is that done?  Are they taken to the cemetery or what?

If I do create a family graveyard, what then, do I have ghosts running around at night? 

[Pam]

First of all, if you haven't already, I suggest you read Carl's Guide on death.

The short version is that when a Sim dies, the Grim Reaper comes to collect the Sim, which turns into a ghost and goes into the urn/tombstone.  If it happens on your home lot, the urn/tombstone will be found where the Sim was when she died.  The urn shows up for indoors and the tombstone is for outdoors (it changes automatically depending where you place it).  One of your surviving Sims can pick up the tombstone and put it in his/her inventory, and can then place it on the ground anywhere you want it.  The ghosts typically come out every two or three nights and haunt from about midnight until around 6:00 a.m.

[Janna]

Thanks for the link, although I have aready read it.  I just didn't feel it answered what I was wondering about.  What happens after they die.  I knew that there was an urn or a tombsone, but wasn't sure who put it where (which you have answered).  I am gathering that if I don't want it on my lot I would just leave it in inventory. 

If, however I keep the urn/tombstone, does the ghost haunt the house, causing mayhem?  Or do they drive off and go somewhere?   A visit to the graveyard for a photo showed them all leaving the area, and with Agnes I think I saw her hubby get into a car and dive off. 

My sim was offered once the chance to live in a haunted house,which I took, and that was a mistake; the ghosts created nothing but problems. 

I plan on doing at least a five generation game with this family, maybe seven, so that is a lot of dead sims floating around.   

[Gameactive]

My sim was offered once the chance to live in a haunted house,which I took, and that was a mistake; the ghosts created nothing but problems.

I never had problems with those ghosts; they simply floated off to some neighbor's house.

In short, if a Sim's grave is on your active lot, it will come out and do various things, like reading books, mooching food, and taking a shower. They will never show up if the grave is in a Sim's or family inventory.

[ratchie]

If you do keep the tombstone on the lot there is the possiblity that the ghosts will show up at all times of the day. You can reset a ghost and send them back their urn/tombstone but in my experience they soon pop back out again.
Depending on my mood I either keep them on my home lot or buy one of the fishing properties and create a family graveyard.I hardly ever keep them in my inventory.

Rachel

[Janna]

Ratchie and Gameactive,
Thank you, that answered my questions, what happens afterwards. 

I didn't make that clear in my first post that was what I wanted to know.  I need to clarify better in the future. 

[Joria]

I had tombstones in my inventory for quite some time after getting fed up with the ghosts.  Then I purchased a property and placed the tombstones.  When I went on travel and returned home they showed up in my inventory again.  Why I don't know.  So I placed them again and sold the property and they totally disappeared!  This made me sad.  Next time I put them in the standard graveyard and there they stayed.

[Gameactive]

Joria, if the lot isn't labeled as a graveyard in Edit Town I don't think they would stay. I've never tried building a cementary but I've never played down more than half a generation of Sims. I have aging set far too high to need worry about that.

[Shirin]

If you want to keep the remains on your property, but don't want to deal with the ghosties, you can stick them in one of the chests from WA, and you'll never see them.

[Gameactive]

…you can stick them in one of the chests from WA, and you'll never see them.

Sadly, World Adventures I have not. I do intend on getting it soon, though.

[Janna]

The founder of my dynasty (personal one) decided to pay the family a visit.  D-I-L was outside and he waved to her, she came over and they chatted.  She went inside and he followed her, but then vanished. 
I am sure it will get boring real soon to see him and later others floating around so I will probably create a family graveyard on another lot.  Didn't know I could do that. 

What is interesting, for me, is that the female founder was noted as being two days older, but George died first.  They have 185 days and she is at 204 and he died at 196.

Another curiousity, does the size of the tombstone have any meaning?

[Shirin]

Tombstone size is indicative of the amount of LTHP accumulated prior to death.

[Janna]

First a note that I hope helps to keep others from being bothered as I did in asking my questions on after death.
I was doing so searching on whoohooing with ghosts and found this info (can't make a link to it, not a moderator) read it quite some time back but forgot it.
Ghost and Death Guide, Ghost Babies, Grim Reaper . . .

That answered a lot of my questions; which would have kept me from bothering all of you.  I know I can't make a link, but it would help others maybe to know about this guide.



My female founder met her dead hubby yesterday.  At first she was shocked and put her hand up for him to stop, quit.  But then she changed and went to him (guess it took a bit for her to realize who the ghost was) and they hugged, they did what they do quite often when around each other before he died, hug, sweet talk and such.  I'm not postive, but I am pretty sure that when I clicked on him the option to whoo came up, like it did when she was alive.  Which surprised me as I read in the guide that one of them had to propose for marriage  before they could whoohoo.

I was wondering if that would be due to them being eternally faithful.

[saltpastillen]

Which surprised me as I read in the guide that one of them had to propose for marriage  before they could whoohoo.

I think it was probably because they are still married.

[Shirin]

You don't need to be a moderator to make links - it's icon directly under U icon that looks like a page on a globe.

Also, you don't need to be married in order to woohoo, regardless of which occult, as long as the relationship is high enough romantically (I found out in a different game that Cornelius Nelson in Sunset Valley's graveyard makes hideous daughters).

And finally, unless something has changed that I'm unaware of, when a spouse dies, they are no longer consider married. I've seen fiance/fiancee and I've seen none, under the partner slots.