My sims son just died. He tried to cook himself some food; he started a fire, I tried extinguish him buh my sim aimed for the grill her son was still on fire. He had passed away & my heart dropped. He has his gravestone outside the house where the grill is at. Buh I tried making my sim mourn him buh it doesn’t have the option. I don’t know what to do.
If you don’t want him to die, and you are still playing the game, you could come out of the game without saving, or you could roll back to an earlier save.
https://help.ea.com/au/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/how-to-restore-a-previous-saved-game-in-the-sims-4/
I experienced something similar to what you just described. I had my young married couple invite both sides of their family over for a Thanksgiving dinner. Suddenly, the child sister of the wife caught on fire (yes, there is a nice fireplace in the dining room). Most of the family didn't even react. Husband and wife, both tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the fire, but alas, the youngster passed away. Grim was suddenly there. Husband did his best to plead for her life, but was rebuffed saying it wasn't possible until Grim had reaped her soul. Then, when he tried, he was still rebuffed. His relationship with his young sister-in-law is good, so I was totally confused. I took a day or two to mull it over. Did I wish to just play through this most unfortunate turn of events or was there something entirely off about it.
Eventually, I rolled back a save and tried again. This time there was no misfortune. I combined parts of the update about the death with the new playthrough and I've gone on from there. If you're able to, I would consider rolling back and try again. I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a child Sim is especially sad. Best of luck.
FADEAHOLIX You can resurrect any sim that dies. There are several ways to do that if you have certain packs. These ways are via Ambrosia which only requires the base game, the Dedeathify spell if you have Realm of Magic and making a wish at the wishing well if you have the Romantic Gardens stuff pack. The most reliable and easiest of the three is the spell as all you need is a spellcaster that has learned the spell. The wishing well can be hit and miss and usually costs you 5K simoleans. All it may give you is one of the ingredients for Ambrosia rather than resurrect the sim. And you need to have the ingredients (death flower, angelfish, 1500 point buyable reward potion) and a sim with level 10 gourmet cooking to make Ambrosia.
When a sim dies, you have 90 game days before the sim is culled and the sim may run off on you as they become a not in world NPC. If you have the urn, you can extend that indefinitely 90 days at a time by using the Strengthen the Connection option. But the best thing you can do is ask or invite the ghost to join the household or move in. Doing that makes the ghost a member of the household and playable. If the ghost remains not in world, they can be hard to locate as they'll come and go. Playable ghosts don't get culled. So that gives you all the time you need to resurrect the sim. And as a playable ghost, they can continue to gain skills, etc., just like a regular sim. All three cures require the ghost to be present at the time you try to resurrect. To use the wishing well or eat Ambrosia you have to be able to control the ghost. They have to be playable, and you direct them to eat or make a wish. The spell can be cast on any ghost but the spellcaster has to be an active sim.
Hope this helps.
