Funeral traditions
Do you already play with traditions involving funerals and memorials?
I'm looking forward to this bit of the Life & Death pack, but I just remembered I have some traditions (that I like to keep) that might not go so well with all the new services.
In my game, when a sim dies it's common to keep the urn for one year either a the location where the sim died, or the family creates a small "memorial table" with the urn, a light or a flower etc, and maybe a photo too. The point is most families will then have a year to mourn and say goodbye in their own way. Well, after a few hours they mostly ignores that display, but I pretend they don't).
One year later, and never more than 2 years later, they will bring the urn to the nearest graveyard to place the headstone and release the spirit. A little bit more mourning and then life goes on.
With the services I realize that using the coffin object shortly after my sim is dead will be quite wrong, because the urn will be back home. I might have the memorial service feature 1 year later though, but still without the coffin, because there will no longer be a body. I wish they would include a similar object for urns. I'm looking forward to the new crypt objects (I think I read that each can hold about 24 urns). This might need to get implemented with my traditions, would be perfects as part of family graves also. Just imagine "the Landgraab Family Crypt" (you might get charged for entering, kidding).
I already have testaments and will readings, too, but with more detail and it's more like a set up for a couple pictures than real game play. So I will combine it with the new feature. I keep track on all heirlooms though, so I will probably make the "official" will very limited and keep handling this "on the side". Adding one smaller heirloom like featured by this pack will be fine though, but I'm sure my duchesses will prefer the "on the side" tiaras, stocks or real estate over a mushroom garden sculpture any day ;)
There are 5 churches in my kingdom, each serving one parish. None of them have a memorial service rom, and will reading takes place in a lawyer's office, so I might think of some adjustments. Thankfully, it will make sense placing such a memorial room in a new basement :)
What about your traditions?
