How did your first ever sim die?

A friend of mine had a game that I just had to try so I was playing Sims 3 at his house. I built an amazing animal shelter. I was really proud of it. We played for hours. One second my sims are happily living their best life and then all heck broke loose. It happened so fast. There was this music and a notification that the social worker was taking the pets. The place was on fire, grim was standing there and I could not find my sims. We were so busy laughing at the cats in the cattery we missed everything. A meteor struck and killed both sims. My friend was stunned, I cried and that was that. I was hooked. The next day I bought my own game because I could not wait to play again.

My friend swears to this day that that was the only meteor strike he ever had in his game and he did not know that it was even a thing that existed in the game.

My first sim probably die in fire in Sims 2, but I remember very well that my sister's first sim died being crashed by satellite. She made family, one man with two kids. She made them leave outside and watch clouds to redo interiors. After a while, he was crushed. I remember I laughed so hard from this, cause she always spend a lot of time in CAS, and she had to make everything from the beginning. :tongue:

My first sim in TS1 never died because I saved right before the grim reaper showed up. ;) But I'm pretty sure she was dying of starvation.

My first sim death happened as a complete accident. A light bulb in a floor lamp burned out, so I sent a sim to change the light bulb and they were accidentally electrocuted.

This was before a patch was released very early on that removed the ability to change light bulbs and/or for sims to get electrocuted while doing so. Supposedly, in theory, a sim could build up the mechanical trait in doing so, albeit in a negligible way (just as supposedly, the higher up they were in their mechanical skill, the less likely it may have been for them to get electrocuted).

At the time, I had no idea that could even happen and I remember the next time a light bulb burned out, I just deleted the lamp and replaced it rather than risk having it happen it again to another sim.

The reason behind the removal was apparently a mixture of complaints from simmers about it happening (which was supposedly the biggest driving force behind its removal) along with a decision that it seemed unnecessary to really change a light bulb (in a way, it seemed to also fit in unintentionally with the lack of power cords in the game) and that it didn't really seem to add anything to the game.

This is going to make me sound really bad but my first Sim died in Sims1 via drowning that the player may or may not have caused.

There is a story behind this as well, it was one of my first Sim families. Odysseus and Olivia, a couple who married and eventually had a kid. After that kid got taken away due to bad grades Olivia cheated on her husband with a townie whose name I have forgotten. When Odysseus caught them he started picking fights every time he saw the other guy, which was admittedly a lot. The simulated dust was flying constantly so I staged a pool accident by removing the ladder. Olivia seemed...strangely relieved if I remember right. It made for an interesting story.

My Sims must suffer in the name of story....its for a good cause.

pretty sure my first sim died in a fire. There was a fire in the house, i was in max speed the fire spread and she was burnt to ashes.

Mine was starvation in The Sims 2. Because I spent all the money on the pool and forgot to buy a fridge.
Or was it fire? Or that death by no reason glitch?
I think it was fire, because I remember that I saw the Grim Reaper first time in the fire.

I remember the time my sim died because of the fire in the house :( He was already starving and then this, pretty cruel death tbh.

I believe it was in Sims 2. My Sims family was using the barbeque and the son who was a teen was too close and caught on fire. It really scared me I could not put the fire out...after freaking for a few I realized if I did not save and quit the game he should still be alive if I restarted game...Whew! He was there when I started the game again and I have never put another bbq in gameplay again!

In the The Sims, a couple I created (first time playing) wife died. Because I had her get up (second day) to fix breakfast and I didn't know they shouldn't be cooking without cooking skills and I had no idea about a smoke alarm in the game. The guy was miserable for weeks, and I didn't know how to get rid of the clown. :D So, the more the clown cried the more my Sim's mood depleted and he wouldn't go to work, eat, sleep etc. and the clown made his misery worse. B) But yeah, I was bummed but it taught me how to play and how to get a Sim out of a very dangerous mood (die from starvation from lack of food, money, motivation) lol so he became my favorite Sim since we had been through so much together. ;)

ETA: I also didn't know to hit the space bar to switch to the other Sim so he could extinquish her, so I was pretty frantic, but all that made me appreciate Will Wright's darker side. "Perseverance*