My sim self's eldest son Tommy and his son were killed off as part of a story I was telling. They both are now ghosts in the game and I haven't released their sprit's to the Netherworld just yet. Tommy's wife Miki has re-married recently via MCCC story progression and has a child with her new husband via Neighbourhood Stories. I was considering reviving Tommy and his son and writing them back in to the story. The theory I have come up with is that Miki was writing a book about the demise of her marriage and she killed Tommy off in the book. Tommy and Miki's son was murdered by a serial killer sim which could also be included part of Miki's story telling. Question is do you keep your ghosts or do you release your ghosts to the Netherworld after death?

I release them unless they have a role to play in a storyline. By "release" I mean that I delete them because I have no need for ghosts outside of rare story purposes.

I tend to release most but i do have certain sims that leave the sugar skull offerings for the day of the dead thing but otherwise I don't deal with ghosts that often as aging is turned off so I have to delete or kill my sims that i want gone. I just now realize how harsh that last bit sounds ?

some I release but some I don't.. It just Depends on who the sims is.

I just wait for them to follow the light on their own.

Only the ones that aren't my occult hybrids or Guidry or Temperance.

Do You Send Your Ghosts To the Netherworld?

32 Replies

VWoodsong
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I release them unless they have a role to play in a storyline. By "release" I mean that I delete them because I have no need for ghosts outside of rare story purposes.
wahini2024
4 years ago
I tend to release most but i do have certain sims that leave the sugar skull offerings for the day of the dead thing but otherwise I don't deal with ghosts that often as aging is turned off so I have to delete or kill my sims that i want gone. I just now realize how harsh that last bit sounds ?
breezy9592
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
some I release but some I don't.. It just Depends on who the sims is.
telemwill
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I just wait for them to follow the light on their own.
SEREFRAS
Legend
4 years ago
Only the ones that aren't my occult hybrids or Guidry or Temperance.
susanleona
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Once the ghosts start breaking things, for me it's a sign that they need to go to the Netherworld.
Deafsimmer
4 years ago
No, but I move them to a graveyard. I know we don't have the graveyard lot type, but still.
Simmerville
Legend
4 years ago
I have a tradition where the family keep the urn/stone at home for 2 years, they might have a small table with a flower and candle etc for mourning - but I guess it depends on how close they were to the dead sim. After 2 years they will bring the stone to the graveyard and release the spirit if it's still there. Some families make it a ceremony, others spend 5 sim minutes on it, LOL.
DaniRose2143
Hero
4 years ago
On the very rare occasions where a sim I'm playing does die, it's really rare, I don't send them on. At the very least I select 'Strengthen Connection to Physical World' if not play them as a ghost and keep them in the world and in the household while I work to resurrect them. I have never released one to the netherworld. I can't bear to part with them.
JaggidEdje
4 years ago
For sims that I have previously played, I cling tightly to their ghosts and regularly strengthen their connection to the material plane so that they stay around.
For all other ghosts, I purge them weekly by releasing all ghosts to the netherworld.

I have a mausoleum and graveyard on a lot in my game (which is also a vampire bar), so keep the tombstones/urns there and I visit the lot about once per week in game to do the release/strengthen thing.