Has anyone ever had sims they didn't purposely kill in the Sims 4 die?

yes, far too often. Mostly from weather, or emotional deaths, but a couple times from fire or electrocution though. I always cheat them back haha. I never want them to die and I hate that it happens so much in bad weather. My Sim came from a big family (100 baby challenge) and 6 of her siblings died in one day (they were adults and moved out, but it was a winter day and it turned out they all died from the snow. I didn't cheat back that time cuz it was a challenge.) Another time my favourite Sim died from embarassment the moment she aged up from teen to young adult as she'd been having a mood swing as a teen and aged up on her own during it. The worst was probably the electrocution time though, because I was playing a single mum and since she was the only adult in the house I lost the full game and got the Game Over thing since you can't play a child only household. The child was my super Sim I'd been raising to get all traits and aspirations and skills since she was a toddler. I had recently uploaded the kid to the gallery fortunately, I couldn't get the mum back but I redownloaded the kid and created a new mum for her and pretended she'd been adopted to carry on lol!

In my none challenge saves I use cheats or mods so they don't die though

yep, a few days ago actually. My father of four died of Hysteria after boohooing woohooing with his wife then talking to his daughter. Had to reload my game because that wasn't what I planned on happening in my storyline.

It doesn't happen a lot in my game tbh

"Luxury;c-17412556" wrote:
yep, a few days ago actually. My father of four died of Hysteria after boohooing with his wife then talking to his daughter. Had to reload my game because that wasn't what I planned on happening in my storyline.

It doesn't happen a lot in my game tbh

Took me way too long to realise that you didn't mean he was crying with his wife about something (boohooing) lol!

I had a Sim set himself on fire while cooking breakfast. That certainly makes the time I set the pot holders on fire seem mild by comparison.

-Electrocution is only ever player-directed, so the only way to die from it not on purpose is if you literally don't know about the singed buff.
-Fire, drowning and starvation are not exactly player-directed, but extremely unlikely to happen without player intervention since Sims will cancel other interactions and do everything in their power to not die from those things, so it requires the player to cancel their attempts to save themselves.
-That leaves only the emotional deaths, those can happen even without the player's consent.

But I don't use auras and I modded environment buff away from my game, so... never.

"Grynn;c-17412571" wrote:
-Electrocution is only ever player-directed, so the only way to die from it not on purpose is if you literally don't know about the singed buff.
-Fire, drowning and starvation are not exactly player-directed, but extremely unlikely to happen without player intervention since Sims will cancel other interactions and do everything in their power to not die from those things, so it requires the player to cancel their attempts to save themselves.
-That leaves only the emotional deaths, those can happen even without the player's consent.

But I don't use auras and I modded environment buff away from my game, so... never.

I had no idea about the singed buff until you just said about it, lol. My Sim died from it accidentally when trying to fix the stove after the gremlins got to it. The sink beside it was broken too and there was a puddle on the floor but I didnt know that it was even a death type until she died haha. Now I'm terrified of repairing stuff so I always just replace it lol.

I did have a Sim accidnetlay die of starvation too, after getting stuck on a lot with no food due to a fire. Wasn't our home lot and I couldn't find the fire and the Sim died before I could extinquish it lol. Forgot that time til just now. He was unable to travel cuz of the fire, and unable to eat without food.
You didn't mention weather though. That's the main culprit in my game. Sims are always freezing or burning to death and it drives me crazy. They are my played sims but I'm not currently playing them, I'm in other households so I cna't stop it happening.

Yep, I've had a Sim drown from back floating while she was exhausted. Over half the inmates in one of my Asylum challenges located on the island lot in Mua Pel'am drowned from swimming while exhausted. One elder overexertion death from woo hoo. And last but not least, my first vampire starved to death while waiting to transition because I thought we weren't supposed to let them eat. Opps! I restarted from a previous save with that one.

Just recently I almost lost a Sim to the Hysterical emotion. I had sent him to calm down with a mirror three times prior when very playful before he finally tipped over to Hysterical. Thankfully I was able to get him to calm down in time, otherwise he might've left his new wife pregnant with their first child behind. It was in an I.S.B.I. challenge I'm playing so I wouldn't have been able to just not save. o.O

But anyway, that's it in the 5 years I've been playing TS4. I'd probably have more deaths from inexperienced cooks setting fires, but I don't let them cook anything, only make salads or eat harvestables until they have some cooking skill under their belt.

I let my elders woo hoo, but only in closets/bushes/saunas. They don't seem to die from woo hooing in there for some reason. And if I'm playing a save where I can't control all the Sims, they don't get a pool or live in Sulani. lol

Oh! I did have one more death in my game, a vampire burned to death outside the front door of my Apocalypse challenge Sims house. But that wasn't one of my Sims. It was his own fault for visiting in the day time. This was before vampires were given umbrellas.

"Karababy52;c-17412584" wrote:
Yep, I've had a Sim drown from back floating while she was exhausted. Over half the inmates in one of my Asylum challenges located on the island lot in Mua Pel'am drowned from swimming while exhausted. One elder overexertion death from woo hoo. And last but not least, my first vampire starved to death while waiting to transition because I thought we weren't supposed to let them eat. Opps! I restarted from a previous save with that one.

Just recently I almost lost a Sim to the Hysterical emotion. I had sent him to calm down with a mirror three times prior when very playful before he finally tipped over to Hysterical. Thankfully I was able to get him to calm down in time, otherwise he might've left his new wife pregnant with their first child behind. It was in an I.S.B.I. challenge I'm playing so I wouldn't have been able to just not save. o.O

But anyway, that's it in the 5 years I've been playing TS4. I'd probably have more deaths from inexperienced cooks setting fires, but I don't let them cook anything, only make salads or eat harvestables until they have some cooking skill under their belt.

I let my elders woo hoo, but only in closets/bushes/saunas. They don't seem to die from woo hooing in there for some reason. And if I'm playing a save where I can't control all the Sims, they don't get a pool or live in Sulani. lol

Oh! I did have one more death in my game, a vampire burned to death outside the front door of my Apocalypse challenge Sims house. But that wasn't one of my Sims. It was his own fault for visiting in the day time. This was before vampires were given umbrellas.

I have seen elders die from bush woohoo so careful with that one haha

Yes, but not recently.
When I started playing Sims 4 my Sims kept dying of fire when they were cooking. Then I learned that I shouldn't make them cook (other than garden salad) when they have a bad moodlet, if they are tense, sad, embarrassed or angry. Then I also learned about the sprinkler. I haven't had any Sims die of fire ever since.
I've also had Sims die of embarrassement, but that also happened a long time ago. Now I know what to do to prevent it.

Of course Sims that aren't in my household have died and will die because I can't control them. They die mostly because of the weather effects or set themselves on fire while using grills.

In my main save, which I've been playing since Get Together was released (so just over four years now), I've had very few true natural deaths. I play with ageing off so I typically decide when it's time for an elder to die off, but otherwise I'll get creative if I'm killing off younger Sims.

Only in a handful of cases have I witnessed Sims die without my direct control over it. Even then, it's usually NPCs and not my own.

- One time, I had a repairman come over to my Sim's apartment to fix something. He was dazed and got electrocuted, then died on the spot. This almost happened two more times afterward.

- Another time, I had my Sim hanging out with Lia Hauata at her house. He was staying the night and ended up going to bed eventually. Lia, although visibly extremely exhausted, kept getting into her pool and napping on a floaty. Every time she would wake from her nap, she would swim for a bit and then get back on the floaty and fall back to sleep. One point when she did this, she was so exhausted that she couldn't swim anymore and then drowned. I restarted the game, since I had a storyline picked out for the two of them together and didn't want this possibly redirected one.

- Then just recently, my Sim was visiting her local park earning votes. It was the middle of summer during a major heat wave and there was a large crowd gathered for a speech she was giving. A Sim collapsed from heat exhaustion and while the crowd redirected their attention to her death, another one collapsed. I reset the Sims and left the lot so no one else could die from distraction, thus overheating.

I've almost had Sims die from freezing, and long ago when the game first came out the only deaths I'd ever get would be emotional ones. Those annoy me so I installed a mod to disable them.