pleading for a loved one-- what are the odds?

I've seen an elder sim only live a few more hours after being revived. In my game everyone was sleeping, time fast forwarded, then all of a sudden time slows, the camera pans on its own to an area close to my lot (which the game considers the whole area around my house to be my lot I've noticed), turns out a random elder was walking through there in the middle of the night and had keeled over across the street from my sims' home. I thought about just watching it (I haven't actually had Grim appear in any of my Sims 4 saves yet), but then I remembered my sim grows Death Flowers and had like 23 in her inventory, so I thought, hey, let's wake her up and send her over to Grim to give him a Death Flower and see what happens. The elder was revived of course , this was at like 3 in the morning sim time, well around 10 in the morning, once again the camera pans over to another spot behind my house, and whaddaya know, it's the same guy who had just died! He was dying again. So the Death Flower literally only bought him a few hours.

It was fine though, this was literally a townie she had never interacted with so no emotional investment, and it was actually a really beautiful scene playing out, it was Winter, there was snow everywhere, it was dark out, the atmosphere was perfect for a death to occur (if that sounds too morbid I'm sorry, but the aesthetic and symbolism couldn't have been more perfect). Plus my sim got to talk to Grim!