Funerals, please! And graveyards!

I would especially like to see a graveyard lot, an inheritance, and children of deceased parents (or adult caretaker) sent to adoption where you can adopt them, maybe a self action to grieve, kind of like the action to go jogging, in this case a person could become sad for an hour or two at a time, and cry. You don’t have to tie it to a certain persons death, that way we could cause a sim to grieve when we want them to grieve. I like the idea of being able to send flowers or cards when someone dies too.

I too would really love a funeral pack. I'd even be happy with a gamepack if it had more umph to it. @Stina1701A I'd also like to see a death related career. I could see the career being Funeral Service, with a split between Mortician and Funeral Director. Maybe one of the career rewards is a phone that directly calls Death and that you can use to invite him over.

Here's what I'd like to see in a gamepack like this:
1. Funerals as a Social Event
2. Graveyards as a lot. Mausoleums as a structure for them (for housing NPC graves like in TS3).
3. Séance Tables for talking with the dead. Cause phones don't cut it.
4. Funeral Homes as a manageable business, or a funeral service career. Preferably funeral homes as a manageable business.
5. Mystic career that can split between Psychic Advisor (with a rare chance of dying from your head exploding) or Medium.
6. Lots of options for formal dress for all age groups.
7. Maybe an expansion of the ghost state? Give them specific places to haunt, particular habits or obsessions, or specific ghost types like banshee, weeping spirit, guardian spirit, poltergeist, etc.
8. And all the other great ideas others have said on this thread like will creation, friends bringing by food after the service, etc.

More death positivity in general. People dont realize that this is our only certainty in life, we should embrace it. Also, any reason for more victorian inspired things?

The Sims 4: Get to the Afterlife.

Grave Robbing: You click on the gravestone and select the "Rob Grave" option. You get a randomly generated object that "belonged" to the departed. While you posses this object the ghost will haunt you. Haunting ghost will have more abilities than normal ghosts. They can start fires and break stuff, but they can also mess with your sims needs and give your sim a Scared or Haunted moodlet.

Sims cannot raise friendships or romance with haunting ghosts.

When you get tired of the ghost's antics you can either return the object to the grave or rat the ghost out to the Grim Reaper, who will come and collect the ghost.

Bind Ghosts to Headstone/Urn: When a sim dies off the active lot you don't get a gravestone or urn. If you hold a funeral for a sim that died off lot, then that ghost will get bound to the gravestone/urn.

Grim Reaper Apprentice Career: You apprentice for the Grim Reaper and when a sim dies you get called there and make the decision of whether or not the sim dies.

While in the Grim Reaper Career, you sim is immortal and doesn't age.

After leaving the Grim Reaper Career your sims can't kill other sims, but you can nudge them to the critical stages where they are endanger of dying.

Ghost Counselor Career: A stay at home career where ghosts come and you counsel them and help them cope with how they died. Eventually the ghost will no longer be tormented/uncomfortable by how it died.

The After World: A Sixam type world with an afterlife theme where a sim with level 10 in the Necromancer skill can visit.

Necromancer Skill: Other than the ability to raise the dead I don't know what things a necromancer skill would include. Maybe you do.

Yes! I would love to have a formal funeral event!

And I'm not really talking about a funeral event like in the Sims 3, because I didn't really get that.

I'd love a funeral event with a casket and family members saying goodbye for the last time by spreading slower petals on the casket. I'd love if we could have this funeral event at a graveyard and since ghosts are a thing in the Sims 4 I think it would be a nice touch if the ghost of the dead sims could greet everyone one "last" time before the funeral ends as well.

So yes!!! Yes to graveyards and a big YES to funerals! This might be the only big event in real life that the Sims team has never really got around to simulate in their life simulation game.

no I have to disagree with this idea as a player who keep aging and death off I would much rather they focus on fixing the game 1 and adding true vacation world

"HuedMoll;d-925460" wrote:
Starting a plea thread for developers to give us a prestige funeral with custom animations. Maybe a funeral home / graveyard combo lot where you can pick out a casket?

I'd love to let my elders go somewhere and plan their own funeral. Buy a plot or choose cremation. Buy a funeral package.

I'd like funeral activities to include mourning, eulogies, food, and some graveside service that ends with a new marker/gravesite/or cremation plaque. You could use the comedy mic or podium for eulogies. Types of eulogies (comic eulogy, heartfelt eulogy, angry rant eulogy, insult eulogy) could give the attendees moodlets. Maybe even cause fights!

Maybe you could set a custom mourning color for clothes, since not every culture considers black the mourning color.

When we have weather, maybe it always rains during funerals.

Neighbors should randomly bring food to your home for a few days after a death and give condolences.

And we need actual tombs or grave plots. I am constantly creating 1x2 or 1x3 platforms/decks or spray painting dirt piles with the terrain tools to make graves realistic. And funeral-specific wreaths and flowers. I am always hanging Christmas wreaths at funerals and pretending they aren't Christmas wreaths.

Other ideas?

J

We could pull a Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and live in a Mortuary. The Goths could own one?!

Funerals are held on a specific venue for this in Spain (tanatorio, it’s called), NEVER on a home. And they NEVER include food. I’d like to see something like this, but I guess it would be too American focused, like most of the content realeased by the Sims. I even find a hard time replicating my house on build mode because there are a lot of European things missing. I can’t imagine how Asians or Africans might feel!

Can there be an option to have a private service for family?

I would love to see funerals as part of The Sims, in particular Viking Funerals. Perhaps it adds the sub-genre of Funeral Doom Metal for sims radio stations as well. B)