How to Kill Your Sims in Sims 3

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Are you tired of your Sims, or are you trying to get a fancy ghost and tombstone? There's more ways than you may realize to end your Sims' virtual lives, especially if you have an expansion.

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Killing Sims in the Basic Game

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Kill it with fire. Buy the cheapest stove or grill and have a Sim with low cooking skill try to cook with it. Alternatively, place flammable objects near a fireplace, and have the Sim stoke the fireplace repeatedly. Sims on fire for one game hour die and become red ghosts.
- Some Sims have hidden traits that allow them to survive three hours on fire. Firefighters cannot be killed by fire.
- The expansions add many, many other ways to start fires. These are not listed below, since they don't give any unique results.
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Cause an electrical accident. Have a Sim with low Handiness attempt to repair or upgrade an electric device several times. The first accident will "singe" the Sim, and the second will kill him if the singed moodlet is still active. Increase the odds by standing in a puddle, and trying to repair expensive, complex devices. Your Sim's ghost will be yellow.
- A Sim with the Handy trait cannot die this way. A Sim with high handiness is unlikely to die this way.
- The Sim needs at least 1 Handiness to have the option to tinker.
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Remove fridges, oven, stove and phone so that your Sim has no way of getting food. You could also wall your Sim up in a room. After about 48 game hours, the Sim will die and turn into a purple ghost.
Pools were infamous in earlier Sims games, since the Sims wouldn't climb out if you removed the ladder. They've become smarter in Sims 3, so you'll need to build a wall around the pool edge instead. Drowned Sims leave behind a blue ghost.

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Killing Sims with Expansion and Store Content

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Die from the World Adventures mummy's curse. With World Adventures installed, explore the Al Simhara tombs and look inside sarcophagi to awaken mummies. Let the mummy catch your Sim, and there's a chance that it will curse you (adding a moodlet). It will take two whole game weeks for your Sim to die, but you get a cool white ghost haunted by a black cloud.
- Sims with good martial arts skills can fight the mummy off, avoiding the curse.
- There are several ways to end the curse, but most are hard to do by accident. Avoid meditation, time travel to the past, unicorn blessings, snake kissing, and sleeping in sarcophagi.
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Hope for a meteor in the Ambitions or Seasons expansions. There's only a tiny chance of this happening, but you can increase the odds by using a telescope outdoors.^{[1]
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- If you also have the Seasons expansion and control an alien, the alien can summon meteors.
- Meteors never fall on children, ghosts, or aliens, but those Sims can run toward the meteor impact site to die.
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Transform into a thirsty vampire in Sims 3 Supernatural or Late Night. Surprisingly, vampires in the Sims 3 can survive sunlight. The only special death they get is their version of starvation, death by Thirstiness. After about two days without Plasma, the vampire will turn into a red ghost with a beating red heart, and get a bat-shaped tombstone.
- To become a vampire, look for NPC Sims with neck tattoos and bright eyes. (You'll get a "Hunted" moodlet when one is nearby.) Become acquaintances with the vampire and choose "Ask to Turn" while interacting.
Each rant has a chance of attracting the Grim Reaper. The first time gets you a warning, shown by a moodlet. Keep ranting about death while the moodlet is active, and the Reaper won't be gentle next time.
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Crush the Sim in a collapsible bed at the University. This is another easy death in the University Life expansion. Open the bed, put the Sim on it, and close it. Squish.
- This might take a couple tries.
Shake the vending machine repeatedly. Each time you shake it, there's a chance it will fall and crush your Sim. All worth it for the free soda.
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Fail as a magician in Showtime. Send your Sim on the Magician career, and entertain the crowds with your suicide. Actually, the Box of Danger is surprisingly safe, but the Buried Alive and Watery Escape tricks have a small chance at death.
- Skilled magicians and lucky Sims may try the trick hundreds of times without dying. Since these are hidden traits, it's hard to predict how likely a Sim is to die this way.
This is the only death that leaves behind a new piece of furniture: a golden statue of your Sim! Fulfill enough wishes to cash in for the Philosopher's Stone lifetime reward, then transmute everything you can find into gold. Each touch includes a small chance of killing yourself.
Add a Magic Jelly Bean Bush to your house and keep using it. There's a 5% chance your Sim will be set on fire or electrocuted, plus a 1% chance of a special jellybean death. This death leaves a purple ghost with blue hair.
Each time a witch casts a haunting curse on another player, there's a chance it backfires and kills them. This can only happen once your witch reaches a certain level of power, so keep on practicing that spellcasting.
You'd think an island paradise would be death-free, but you'd be wrong. Sims can drown or starve while scuba driving, and even get killed by a shark if they don't find a place to hide. Mermaids can die by spending too much time on land, but a nearby Sim might splash water on the mermaid to save her life.
The Into the Future expansion introduces two additional ways to die. Flying a jetpack too long comes with a high chance of crash, which may or may not kill the Sim. Using a time machine can cause the Time Paradox Sickness moodlet, leading to Do I Even Exist? and Blinking Out of Existence. Finally, the Sim can disappear completely... sometimes along with their descendants!
This form of death requires the "Door of Life and Death" from the Sims store. Knock on it to greet Death and challenge him to a guitar contest. Fail, and meet the deadly Pit Monster!^{[2]
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One of the weirdest ways to die involves the Cow Plant from the Sims Store. Scold the plant and let it sit there without food for a few days. Eventually, it will offer your Sim a slice of cake, then eat you if you try to take it.

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Enable testing cheats. Open the cheat console with Control + ⇧ Shift + C. Type in testingcheatsenabled true to enable the options below.
- Careful! These cheats can cause broken save files and crashes, especially if you use them on NPCs. Disable them as soon as you're done with testingcheatsenabled false.
Hold down ⇧ Shift and click the Sim. Select "Trigger Age Transition" to advance to the next age category. Repeat until the Sim is an elder, then trigger it one more time to make them die of old age.
With these cheats enabled, moodlet bars can be altered by clicking and dragging. Drag the hunger bar until the Sim starves.
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Delete the Sim. This will skip all the in-game deaths and just remove the Sim, which can be handy if the Sim is permanently stuck in a bug. Shift-click the Sim and select "Delete."
- This is especially likely to damage your save file if you try it on an NPC.

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I have heard that a Sim can die from too many toilet accidents. Is this true?

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This only works in Sims 4. You need a special embarrassed moodlet in order for this to happen.

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How do I kill a Sim on Sims freeplay?

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If any needs get too low, they will go up to max. So age is the only way to die that I know of. Drowning might work, but there are also no expansions for Freeplay.

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Turning free will off can help set up some of these situations, but even then your Sims may act on their own to save lives.^{[3]
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You can get your Sims back by using a certain opportunity or have their ghost eat ambrosia.

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If your gardener Sim can find Death Flower seeds and grow them into plants, each flower will resurrect the Sim once after a death. This can let you try out many deaths without having to reload.

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When a Sim with the Unlucky trait dies for any reason besides old age, the Grim Reaper will resurrect them automatically.

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Save your game before trying to kill your Sims. You might want your Sims back!

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Death cannot happen outside of lots, such as on roads or while swimming in the ocean. Trying to kill a Sim in these areas can cause glitchy results.

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