What do you think of accidental deaths?

Well personally, my sims avoid it by giving the Werewolf Immortality trait.  This trait works even after the Werewolf Occult is removed.  Can any simmer say Ooo.  Yup, I can't help myself giving all my beloved sims that.

I don't usually mind accidental deaths. As most other players have mentioned, there are often warnings and things you can do to prevent death from occurring.

The only accidental death I ever had was the Murphy bed one. I'm glad I tested it using a throwaway save, instead of my rotational save. My sim died on the first night, and that was enough to convince me never to use the Murphy bed ever again lol.

I've only had it happen twice. One was an elder who died of exhaustion. The other was a newlywed who died from laughter.

I'm paranoid about getting Sims playful now. As soon as they're very playful, they're sent to calm down.

Lately it seems I've had more than usual and I don't really like them. One was a Sulani drowning, very unexpected and with no warning. My sims often start to swim when I tell them to go home from Mua Pelam so from now on they will go somewhere else first. This sim was doing well in a career too but she was single so I accepted the death. The next one I did not because it happened to a family I've been playing for a while during my error code 0 time when it wouldn't save and I finally was about to get my couple married when she died of laughter. I didn't save. Another type of death I can't control is when my sim is visiting another family or location and they either catch on fire or freeze to death and you can't get to them in time.

💀💀 They happen too rarely

It's been interesting to read how everyone sees accidental deaths and if there have been many. For me things have changed since starting this thread. I gave my vampire level 3 sun sensitivity and since then he has died maybe 4 or 5 times. Two of those were when he returned from work and game was on speed three, one was him taking out trashes, one I think was him admiring decor and one because I ordered him to ship some plopsy items. I clearly don't know how to play a sun sensitive vampire. I have pleaded successfully for his life a couple of times and the other times I exited without saving. My plan is they'll grow death flowers and be prepared to him dying, but right this moment the flowers are not in season and I'm not ready to lose him. I still think accidental deaths happen too rarely overall as this is a very specific case.

They happen fairly regularly in my game. I wouldn’t say too often or too little. I’m not that bothered by them although I do keep a close eye on my Sims with the goofball trait as death by laughter is the most common in my gameplay. That’s the only one I will exit and restart for lol, but the others are good to spice things up a bit! 

I had one accidental death when I didn’t realize that resuming a mechanism on the workbench when dazed will kill your sim.  I didn’t have a death flower at the time, so I exited without saving.

I’ve had a few NPC’s die early (young adults) without any notification.  The most recent one, I was able to find the house and get my spellcaster over there.  I’m not sure of the spell names,  but one summoned the spirit from the grave and the other was able to bring it back to life.

I didn’t realize sims can die from emotion.  One of them has daily outbursts from not knowing the purpose of life.  I’ve got a few death flowers on the ready.

I don't mind accidental deaths, but it does depend on the Sim. Although not many accidental deaths happen within my game.

I have favorite Sims which I'm not ready to let go, so I use MCCC to make them immortal.

💀💀 They happen too rarely

In regards to townies, I'm not sure how they die as I don't pay attention. However, I've only had a few deaths in my game, including dying from embarrassment and hysteria, both of which are very annoying lol. 

💀 Death is too major an event and too impactful on the chronicle that I'd allow it to happen randomly. Fortunately random deaths are easy to avoid, so I don't face that problem often.

If it happens against all expectation, I either reload or instantly resurrect the "dead" sim and assign them a drawback. What that is depends on the story I'm playing, it can be anything from wearing a bandage for a couple of days to a new occult state.

Just to give an example, in my Star Wars save a toddler was forcefully adopted by an imperial family and my sims are making plans to steal him back. That's heartache and tension enough (since the outcome will depend on my sims' actions, can go either way). Their bed randomly falling on one of the involved characters would add absolutely nothing to the drama, to the contrary, it would feel like comedy.

There are many challenges around that include dice rolls for random deaths, the Oregon Challenge being my favorite in this regard. Those rolls all occur on expected points and therefore make the resulting story feel real. Justified randomness will always be more satisfying for me than wanton randomness.