A very real life benfit of life&death expansion pack

It is good that the Life and Death expansion pack has helped you to cope with the death of your sims and see their death in a new way. Funerals can be an encouraging part of the grieving,mourning and healing time after a death. It is a way for you to let go of your sim, and also give them a special tribute to them that reflects their sims life ❤️ Having a memorial photo frame can also be a special reminder of them.

Yes, the funeral is a good way to remember them. IF ONLY the frame worked a little bit more like photos. I had trouble keeping the frame but oh well... more photos of my sims to be done!

Wow... I never really thought about that pack in that way...

Yeah, dealing with a loss is one part of the pack. After all, there's the grief system that could change one of your sim's traits depending on how they cope with it. Plus for the player too. They could play the sim as a ghost, but eventually players can decide to let them go to the Great Beyond or have them rebirth into a new sim.

I never had trouble with death, but this pack has made the gameplay around it more interesting. Plus it has a lot of philosophical messages too, like doing everything you want before it's too late, letting go of those who has gone and embracing the new, is death really the end or is it a beginning of something new etc.

It's a good pack, I agree. And if it has these effects, it really shows its good quality. So yeah, I'm happy for you that in a way, that improved your gameplay experience.

I love the way you described how you feel about this 😊 

In my main save death is something yet to happen, avoiding it in all costs too. But maybe I should go back to way I once used to play and let it happen and hae funerals too. Made me think 😊

That's a really good point, and I pretty much feel the same way about both my Sims dying and the pack. I've been playing with my main household and the founder couple for almost two years at this point and have done everything I could to keep them safe, including making them spellcasters so they can have familiars to protect them. Now, as their kids are almost all grown up and they have welcomed their first grandchild, I think I'll age them up to elders, let them retire and have some well-deserved fun, like a long holiday in Selvadorada so they can explore those ruins. And eventually, I'll let Grim take them, keep them around a little while longer as ghosts until I'm ready to let them leave altogether. I'm not quite there yet, though, but I like this aspect of the pack, and that it lets Sims write up a will and leave instructions for their funerals. I'll still mourn them because I've grown very attached to them after all this time.

I don't like real life mourning in my Sims 4.  I've had a lot in my own life.  I've lost my Dad, my favorite Aunt & my two Uncles.  I'm also still grieving for my last Uncle that just recently passed away.😢

So, what I do is give all my sims the Werewolf Immortality power (then remove Werewolf trait if they aren't going to be Wolves) so the stay alive.🙂  I do play some Ghosts though, however they were never mortals to begin with, so no mourning.

I've definitely had a few in game deaths that still haunt me. I too, enjoy the closure the Life and Death pack brings.