Sims 4 life and death Casual Infothread

I'll make the first re-cap post on the first info.

Trailer:

• Crow perch. Unclear if sims can have crows for pets or if it is a festival thing.
• Crows can attack sims.
• Tarot card readings.
• Sims can die in their sleep.
•  Funeral event. It includes a funeral coffin and portrait picture of the deceased sim. Activities also include lighting candles, giving speeches etc.
• Wills and inheritance system it seems.
• Ghost cowplants?
• Soul's journey tab, it seems like sims discover their bucket list tasks. Completing bucket list tasks fills up the progress bar. There are 9 rewards (first is satisfaction points, last is rebirth). There's also locked 7th reward. My guess is that further progress requires the sim to become a ghost.
• Well of Longing and Regret: sims can toss a coin in and something happens, like a ghost coming to scare your sim. Like with Wishing Wells in Romantic Garden stuff.
• New kissing animation...
• New swimming lake, which can turn your sim into a ghost.
• New ghost scare interactions.
• Grim Reaper career. It seems to be an active career... It includes a portal of sorts... And reaping dead sims.
• Sims can take a peek at what's under Grim Reaper's hood.
• New graveyard lots. Sims can tend the graves there.
• Sims can have different gravestones now.
• Grim Reaper actually speaks here. That is so strange... Anyway, it seems like that ghostly powers can be mastered or sims can finish their unfinished business.

The first blog:

• New world: Ravenwood
  • It contains 3 neighborhoods:
    • Crow’s Crossing
      • An eerie haunted village.
      • Includes the Mysterious Merchant (selling curios and collectibles), grave makers, and Try Before You Die casket sale.
      • Includes a graveyard.
      • Two festivals can happen there: Ravenwood Family Day and Crow's Crossing Celebration of Life
      • Haunted houses and ghostly guarded wishing well.
    • Whispering Glen
      • Includes a crypt and Tarot Tome Shrine.
      • Moon Revelry festival can happen there.
      • Includes a swimmable lake. Something special happens when swimming during a full moon.
    • Mourningvale
      • Ghosts can be found there often.
      • Grim Reaper tends to wander there too.
      • Sims can swim in Baleful Bog and become a ghost or transition into rebirth.
      • Thinned Festiveil and Afterlife Anonymous meetups take place there.
• Soul's Journey
  • Helps sims to achieve rewards as they complete Wants and Aspirations.
  • The ultimate reward is the ability to be reborn as a sim with special Burning Soul trait. This unlocks past Childhood Development Skills, Traits, and Infant Milestones, and may also find special ties to sims from their past life.
  • When sims reborn, they can choose the age they come back as.
  • Bucket lists
    • Sims can acquire new goals randomly depending on their traits.
    • Sims can also use a computer or a journal to add either a random goal, a goal from a category, or a specific goal.
    • Completing the goals will get your sim powerful rewards.
  • Ghosts can also complete their Soul's Journey to get that ultimate rebirth.
• Ghost... Improvements?
  • Ghosts can linger on as playable household members (I'm guessing they can join the household immediately, as you can already ask them to join the household)
  • New interactions to wreak havoc or lend a helping hand.
  • New spectral WooHoo, done by possessing objects.
  • Playable ghost sims can be customized in CAS (Can't they already be? This needs more info!).
  • Ghost powers that can be built.
  • Fear and Goodwill essences that can make you money.
• New careers:
  • Reaper profession (active career)
    • Sims become Grimterns and work their way up to Reaper.
    • Workplace: Netherworld Department of Death and 'the field' 
    • Tasks include:
      • Reaper training with training dummy named Kenny.
      • Maintaining scythes.
      • Determine causes of death for reaped souls.
      • Higher level sims can also determine which souls they reap and which they'll return to life.
      • Souls can then be placed in the Netherworld Portal to meet the soul quota.
    • Sims who meet the soul quota can become the Employee of the Month.
  • Undertaker career (rabbit hole career)
    • Sims do things like grave digging and embalming.
    • They can also do interactions like Discussing End of Life services or Contemplating Existence.
    • They can earn rewards like Plague Masks, a Murphy Membrane Bust, or a Corpus Commendation Plaque.
    • Two branches: Mortician and Funeral Director.
• New aspiration: Ghost Historian
• New reward trait: Ghost Whisperer
• New book genre: Horror novel
• New lot trait: Hallowed Grounds.
• Three new traits:
  • Macabe
  • Chased by Death
  • Skeptic
• New skill: Thanatology
• New death: Death by Murder of Crows
• Wills:
  • Sims can create wills through the new world's Town Hall, a computer, or at the Family Day Festival.
  • Wills can be updated at any time.
  • Sims can leave heirlooms, personal notes, funeral planning requests, and designate sims to care for their pets and/or children.
  • Sims can also specify how they want their remains to be handled and the reactions of the sims reading the will.
  • If the entire household passes away, they can donate the money to a charity or another household.
• Grief:
  • Four grief types:
    • Denial
    • Holding it Together
    • Anger
    • Blues
  • The type depends on sim's traits and the relationship.
  • Grief can happen by death, ending a friendship, divorce/break up, losing a job, or having a child or pet taken away.
  • Grief takes effect after the mourning period.
  • Sims in grief can reach out for help from other sims or attend Grief Counseling.
  • Other sims can also help sims overcome their grief.
• Funerals:
  • A customizable event where you can set the dress code and color and pick activities (14 in total)
  • Activities include:
    • Giving a Eulogy
    • Lighting Candles
    • Planting something
    • Serving Food
  • Ghost of the deceased can also appear in their own funeral.
  • Memorial Displays can be set up with the portrait of the deceased sim.
• Sims can select the urn or tombstone for the sim, decorate the gravesite, or leave them a message on a special memorial statue. Urns can also be placed in Crypts.
• Another early purchase reward.