Need Advice - my first sim death and funeral

You can search a funeral mod because I have one and it's a social event with a coffin and everything. One of my issues with doing a legacy is when one generations dies out the next one is sad for ages.

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Do you have any painters who maxed out the career and can always paint emotional paintings? I haven't played with painters in awhile, but iirc they can paint a sad painting; have 'em make a few, or make one, save it to your library, and download multiple copies. Place them where the sims will be gathering for the funeral, and turn on the emotional aura. (You can also just find such paintings in the gallery, again assuming I remembered correctly.)

As for a realistic death, if you have Seasons, death by overheating has real-world parallels. So does death by exhaustion, and that doesn't require anything but the base game. You can woohoo your elder to death if you queue up a number of those actions. Over-exercising is harder, as they'll get off the exercise machine, drop everything queued, and any further exercising is greyed out.

I've been getting phone notifications of deaths, but the sadness debuff hasn't been 100% reliable for my sims whether they witness the death or not; hence my suggestion to force the issue with paintings.

Hope that helps--and that you get the story and ceremony you want!

In my experience, a holiday from Seasons or a club gathering with sad/mourning club activities from Get Together works better than just a straight party for funerals. For the holiday, you can add the Remembrance tradition, which will prompt the NPCs and your own sims (if you have autonomy turned on) to go mourn at the grave or urn every once in a while. Then you can throw a non-goaled party on the holiday to gather Sims from outside the household. Also, with Seasons, you can have a sim with a high flower arranging skill scent some arrangementsfor the funeral with dahlias to get everyone in a sad mood for your screenshots.

As for whether sims will notice your sim's death if they're not present... I'm not sure. I feel like I've had it go either way. Adult children living in separate households definitely get a sad buff for a couple days after their parents pass away, but I think I've also had sims even in the same household (both relatives and non-relatives, but certainly with strong relationships with the dead sim) not be affected at all. I think getting your hands on some items that emit a sad buff for the funeral would be a good idea just in case your sim's death totally floats over the heads of her loved ones.

Also, you could def use the podium from City Living for eulogies!

@M_Valentine22 That's good to know about the funeral mod and that it has a coffin. Thanks!

@Tiarella I have a maxed out artist, but I didn't know you could make paintings associated with emotions, so that's great advice, and I will definitely do that. Thanks!

@lar0ja I never thought of using a club with sad activities, but that sounds like it would be perfect. Thank you!

@QueenofMyshuno - it's the painting aspiration-reward that gives your painter the ability to paint any kind of emotional painting in any mood; there's a guide here. (I keep thinking I get that from one of the career branches, but no, it's the reward for completing the aspiration.)

Using a club vibe to get the emotion you want is a great idea; I do it all the time for my clubs but I've never used purchased the sad vibe. Thanks to the two of you, now I know what I could use that for!

I always have a cemetery lot in my games, I don't like keeping urns in inventories or sitting around the house. I just invite people over to a house with the urn prominently displayed, sims then will randomly mourn the deceased.