All elders have fear of death?
Is this just me or have others noticed this as well? I don't often play with the elder life stage, because my Sims are typically immortal for story purposes. I was finding it odd though that nearl...
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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.
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.
