Gobsmacked and I'm Unsure What to Do

I always exit without saving if played sims die accidentally. 

I asked a similar sort of question recently when a sim died from dart poisoning and left his only son an orphan at the teen stage. But it doesn't matter what replies I got, I still had to decide for myself as only I could tell how I really felt about it within my own game. On that occasion I decided to go with it and he remained dead, but sometimes I regret that decision.

I don't really avoid death in my game sometimes I even invite him over 🖤

I do however prefer to choose when my sims time is up so if they do pass away at bad time I would probably try to resurrect via gameplay :)

The way it happened and all the lack of concern of the other Sims leads me to believe this was a glitch.  I've only had such glitches happen a couple of times before this. Erik died and the camera didn't immediately **bleep** over to where he was, for one.  Another time, Erik died by freezing to death, even after he got inside! That was really odd.

I kept the save (I do a Save As with each gaming session) and rolled back to the day prior the Thanksgiving, as it turned out. (Couldn't do that again if I tried.) This time no fire, no loss of a Sim. Things played out as one would hope they would.

I rolled back with the idea that if it wasn't a glitch, after all, I would pick right back up with the other save, I had already set up the funeral.

As it stands, things played out just fine. I used parts of the update I'd already written to merge with the new stuff. I am happy with how the update worked out.