All elders have fear of death?

I can't say it's a glitch or that it's going to get fixed. What I will say is it's happening to me as well. Well, two of the elders that were briefly in my current household. They were just a few short days from dying of old age when I moved them in with their daughter, who is married to my main sim. To me, that made sense because they were close to the end of their lives.

The weird thing, not really related to the fear, is that Christopher died and I didn't get a notification for him. I did get a notification for his wife, Melanie, and that's how I knew he had died. I never saw him lying on the ground or anything.

I’m hoping it’s a glitch, too. I saw people talking about it so I made an elder sim to check it out for myself and I played with her a couple of sim days - no fear of death. I was like, well, this isn’t so bad, and shut my game down. The next time I opened her household, she was in a blind panic about death. I had her go to the Chalet in Windenburg to talk to the ghosts there and ‘discuss her fear of death’. The fear went away and did not return for the rest of that play session, but then I visited another household and when I went back to the elder, yup, the extreme fear was back. That seems like a bug.

Like you said, it’s highly unrealistic. Not all elderly folk sit around obsessing about death. Mostly because they have a variety of ways to deal with it - hobbies, interests, social groups, playing with grandkids, spirituality (meditation, prayer, going to church/temple/synagogue/mosque). I knew an elderly woman with severe emphysema who was still happy as a clam because she went to the casino (with her oxygen tank!) and played the slot machines every day. It wouldn’t be so bad for that fear to pop up in-game if the sim had a variety of ways to get rid of it. I’m going to play with my elder sim some more and see if other things will get rid of it. Otherwise, she’s gonna be REALLY good friends with Mimsy, I guess.

ETA: I’ve been testing things with my elder sim and I’m finding that while nothing else directly gets rid of the fear, it comes and goes on its own. I had her meditate until bedtime and that didn’t work, of course. But when she woke up the next morning it was gone and now, a few sim hours later it’s back. She’s having a bbq with the neighbors, though, and doesn’t even seem to notice. When things slow down, she’ll show signs of the fear again. It’s like other bad moodlets, then.

I don't have any Elders, yet. I have aging off temporarily, until my Teens begin high school. Then I will flick it back on.

As for the lack of notifications regarding death, that does sound like a glitch. I lost my Global Superstar who was still a YA. The camera never even brought me to him. The only clue I had that something untoward was occurring was that little sad chime of music. And that his wife, busily making PB & J sandwiches (she had four school aged kids) suddenly had a moodlet that she lost the love of her life. If you are able to, I would roll back to the earlier save and see if the dearly departed are still with you. I took the camera to the back yard, where Erik was supposed to be tending to the Chickens. I found a tombstone marked with his name and nothing else. No clue as to what took him. I rolled back and kept him out of the Chicken yard to alter the chain of events.

I've been playing in Sulani the whole day, and every second townie I bump into is screaming in fear and running around.

Some are elders, some aren't, but it sure is annoying. :( I did not check out if they had a fear, but they all had the scared moodlet.

I'm not sure if unplayed sims are supposed to get fears but it feels like they do, that means that every unplayed elder will have fear of death.

It certainly feels like the cooldown timer between fears keeps going even if you are not playing your sims, I keep getting hit with fears every time I load into another household, especially fear of unfulfilled dreams and fear of dead-end job.

And yes, all of my elder sims seem to get fear of death as well.

There are many elderly people in real life that have a fear of death, so I have no problem with that. Now, if they're running around screaming about it then yeah, that's a bit excessive lol

"GalacticGal;c-18175739" wrote:
As for the lack of notifications regarding death, that does sound like a glitch. I lost my Global Superstar who was still a YA. The camera never even brought me to him. The only clue I had that something untoward was occurring was that little sad chime of music. And that his wife, busily making PB & J sandwiches (she had four school aged kids) suddenly had a moodlet that she lost the love of her life. If you are able to, I would roll back to the earlier save and see if the dearly departed are still with you. I took the camera to the back yard, where Erik was supposed to be tending to the Chickens. I found a tombstone marked with his name and nothing else. No clue as to what took him. I rolled back and kept him out of the Chicken yard to alter the chain of events.

I didn't get the camera span with Christopher but did with Melanie. Christopher's urn was on the floor beside their bed. I assumed because they died at exactly the same time, it only gave me her notification. I only moved them in toward the end of their lives so their daughter, Thalia, would have their urns.

Also, I noticed when Melanie's ghost came to visit a couple nights later, she was still scared of something. She scared my main sim's son. I have no idea what scared her. Surely it wasn't still a fear of death, considering she was already dead. I assumed it was the dark because I've gotten the fear of the dark from a few sims already.

I just keep ignoring all the fears, because they seem to be all the same few ones. I don't even pay attention to them anymore.
I tried to get rid of them, but they keep coming back over and over again. There's no point of trying, so I've chosen to completely ignore them as much as I can. My Sims are a bit more tense than usual, but otherwise it's been okay.

"Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds it's certainty." - Farscape

... and honestly, most seniors I know aren't afraid of death. They just seem annoyed about the whole thing. :)

Hmm... That is something I've been having too.

All pre-patch elders seem to get this fear, while all post-patch elders added into the game don't.

My theory here is that becoming an elder is one of the triggers for the fear of death. However, somehow the game gets confused and assigns the fear to all the elders that already exist.