@Tiarella My sim was not a gardener (his father is) but none have death flowers :(
My pleading did not help at all - probably because my sim did not really know ant of them well. I also could not get them to change their clothes - did not get the teleporting like you did but guess all the mourning would not let my sim do it. Glad you got to save some of them! Weird - seems like the same sims I had except Eliza Pancakes- must be the ones pegged to go to places when your own sim does.
The whole ordeal sort of added some flavor to my game though - I was really just playing a family trying out seasons. Since this happened - my sim gathered up all the urns and delivered them to the homes they belong to like the police bringing the bad news! Malcolm is an orphan and I have started playing that out - poor dude - the next day was Winterfest and he was all alone - but he had fun beating up Father Winter for presents (he has the evil trait)! Brant keeps going to the wishing well wishing to live again but the wishing well is mean so he is still a ghosty! Some weird glitch with him - he froze to death and acts like a ghost that froze to death - always shivering - but in his traits it says he died by fire! Odd too - the sims that actually lost someone close were not sad at all but all my sims that barely even knew the sims that died were sad for days. Granted - the sims that lost people did not actually witness the deaths but I think this is so stupid.