@kalaksed, yup. And he even gave my sim his headstone in advance lol. Seriously, after I got the "game over" message I returned to the main menu without saving & restarted from my last save point, which hadn't been too long before the "death." Anyway, I was playing just now and went into household inventory to put a Starlight Award Maurice (my sim) had just won for writing on a shelf in his basement (he keeps some of his collections there) & there it was in inventory: his headstone. There was also a bunch of stuff from Maurice's personal inventory there that wasn't there before his "death" like fruit/veggies, fish, etc. Might try a repair game, though I'll miss the headstone if the repair gets rid of it LOL.