How did your first Sims 3 death happen or the first accidental killing of your own sim?

@CravenLestat I'm so digging your new avi! ;)

My sim just gave birth to a baby, then a kitchen fire started. Mother went in to save the baby, but she got caught in fire. She just stood there, doing nothing, burning and holding her baby. Other sims didn't even have an option to save her. She was doomed to die because she were holding a baby. Sad...
But after she died and turned into a ghost, she got a gardening opportunity. I chose not to complete it and exited the game without saving it.

My world-famous spy just couldn't hang. Forced retirement followed shortly by a visit from Grim. N00bie just hadn't learned the ins and outs, so no family either, and it was game over.

Old age!

In Sims3, my Sim was named Jetta Burns and my VERY FIRST Sim ever made. She was married to a (randomly generated) townie named Reuben Rocha, who ended up being the biggest cheater that I've seen - 5 other girls while married to Jetta!

Jetta and Reuben ended up with twins - Mary and Miranda Burns.

Reuben also got Morgana Wolff pregnant, and she also had twins - Bill and Rochelle Wolff. I ended up building a second house on the same lot, moved Morgana in, and forced Reuben to take care of ALL four children that HE helped make!

Years passed - the children are grown and Morgana and Jetta are now elders. Reuben has been evicted, due to his cheating ways (dunno about the other girls he was with)!

Jetta is outside of the theater, playing her guitar. THIS would be her LAST day alive. Other Sims are coming over and giving tips. It seemed like a normal day...

UNTIL...

Jetta stopped playing and died right in front of several other Sims! The Grim Reaper came and Jetta made no attempt to plead with him. I guess she knew her time was up.

Ever since then, I've not only played with "Aging Off", but (in fear and superstition) I absolutely refused to allow any of my other Sims play their instruments in Jetta's "death spot"!

In all my sims games, my sim has only died once and it was from electrocution. :D

My first Sims 3 sim death that I can remember clearly was a death at work. My born in game sim got a job in the military career. Then one day I got a note that he'd died at work. I avoided that career for a long time after that. I think EA stopped that from happening in one of the early patches. I don't remember if I was playing his household or another household at the time. It was the first time I'd had a family grow up and move out of their parent's house and I could have been playing with one of his brothers in a different house - the brother had mysteriously gained a motherless baby. It was all a bit difficult to keep track of back then.

My first sims experience was Sims 2, and from what I can recall, I'd only been playing a single sim for a few days when she caught fire to the oven while making breakfast one morning. I knew sims could burn food in the oven, but had no idea appliances could catch fire like that. Let alone kill your sim. Poor thing didn't have a smoke alarm and died trying to put out the fire while I sat trying to piece together what was happening.

@polrbear The sim in your avi is so pretty! c:

Hey there! My very first Sim who died was Ethan Bunch.

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I've started to play The Sims 3 kinda late, since I needed to discover how to play rotationally with whole town (every family in SV + bin families) to create The Real Sunset Valley story. It was my 11th episode of the game (11th week with frozen aging, as I age everyone after playing them all one week) witch was the Bunch Household. It was totally unexpected! The radio was broken so I took Ethan to repair it. The only family member, who wasnt at home that time was Lisa, who was with VJ Alvi on a date in the Graveyard (seriously!).

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And the suddenly on my monitor I saw dead Ethan body lying on the floor.

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It was so unexpected After Grimm took his soul, I clicked "save" and decided to continue my game.

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Judy was pregnant that time with her 5th child, and gave birth just after (few hours) Ethan death, so little baby girl Cheryl was on funeral as well.

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I didnt know at that time, that Ethan was counted for Judy's LTW because he was teenager already do I decided in next episode make Judy pregnant one more time (baby girl Janet), so she has 6 children in general (counting dead Ethan) in my game.

And here's last photo of Ethan alive playing video games with Lisa and Bella Bachelor.

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To see whole episode click the link bellow:

http://therealsunsetvalley.blogspot.com/2016/03/trsvs01e11-bunch.html

:-)

Meteor Strike happened right after I installed Ambitions.

I get so attached to my sims that these days I don't "let" them die from anything other than old age (and sometimes not even that, at least for a while), and I've certainly never gone out of my way to kill them, unless you count the occasional observation right before I quit without saving. So I was wondering: What does a ghost from a force-killed sim look like? (Not MC Total Annihilation—I know the whole point is that all traces of them disappear.) If a sim isn't an elder and didn't do actually do anything fatal, what does the game assign as cause of death?