The Sims 4: Guide to ALL 46 DEATH TYPES and Ghost Abilities (2024)

_*UPDATE*_
- July 25th 2024: In Lovestruck Expansion Pack, there are two new types of death:

NOTE:
- To everyone who's still wondering, I'm Indonesian.
- Buat yang masih sering bertanya-tanya, ya gua orang Indonesia.

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0:00 Intro
0:27 1. Starvation
0:48 2. Fire
1:29 3. Old Age
1:54 4. Overexertion
2:32 5. Electrocution
3:16 6. Anger
3:46 7. Embarrassment
4:15 8. Laughter
4:46 9. Cowplant
5:29 10. Drowning
6:08 11. Meteorite
6:50 Rocketship crash death doesn't exist
6:58 Ghost Goo Serum
7:08 12. Steam
7:53 13. Pufferfish
8:28 14. Wishing Well
8:50 15. Sunlight (Vampires)
9:42 16. Old Age (Cats)
9:58 17. Old Age (Dogs)
10:21 Cats and Dogs Ghosts
10:32 18. Poison
11:43 19. Skeleton Deaths
12:18 20. Rabid Rodent Fever
13:33 21. Rodent Deaths
13:46 22. Mother Plant
14:45 23. Overheating
15:31 24. Freezing
16:11 25. Lightning
16:52 26. Flowers
17:31 27. Drowning in a Pond
17:58 28. Drowning in the Ocean
18:26 29. Being Pulled Underwater
18:59 30. Research Machine
19:44 31. Catastrophic Meltdown (Servos)
20:31 32. Spellcaster Overload (Spellcasters)
21:10 Immortality Potion failure
21:19 33. Murphy Bed
22:24 34. Flies
23:16 35. Beetle Juice
23:48 36. Vending Machine
24:34 37. Falling from Heights
25:24 Ghastly Seance Ritual
25:35 38. Chicken Attack
26:21 39. Rabbit Attack
26:53 40. Old Age (Farm & Wild Animals)
27:33 41. Fox Attack (Chickens and Rabbits)
27:58 Werewolves can devour small farm animals
28:17 42. Urban Myth
29:28 43. Stink Capsule
30:07 44. Old Age (Horse)
30:36 45. Old Age (Goats and Sheep)
30:57 46. Mold
32:18 Outro

[onlyabidoang]

*_UPDATE_*
- July 25th 2024: In Lovestruck Expansion Pack, there are two new types of death:

[felixhatton]

That death by laughter animation is genuinely terrifying. I had it happen once and wasn’t aware of that being a thing. Had a good few nightmares about that one

[daniellew.]

I like the animations of death of old age. There's no struggle, no pain, just "I've had a good life and now it's time for me to rest". It's kinda... Zen

[yomeiko]

I wish they kept the animations from The Sims 3 for cat, dog and horse death. It was so sweet how Death would give them one last hug and the animation of the pet going to the afterlife is so bittersweet

[bayIees]

the fact we cant have burglars because they're "too scary and induce anxiety" but they okayed deaths animations like laughter and mold 😭

[HJHWolf]

No unique death for werewolf sounds like missed opportunity. Maybe they can have death by wolfsbane or something.

[terrav]

Okay, but 9:20 didn't need to make me laugh so hard. Katrina just walks by, acknowledges the death, and does a complete 180 like, "Hold up." That would be my nosey ass too

[willmulvey]

I like how you'll be watching a horrifying animations and just see Goku, Sephiroth, or Zuko.

[PrevTsukasaRui]

Rabbid Rodent Fever actually terrified me as soon as i heard about it and saw it.

Sorry but the Joker skin for death by lightning was perfect.

[UnassumingLlama]

I love that the ghosts are just dancing after they die 😂 some of these death animations are much more violent than I remember. The rabbit death being cheatable is a godsend sometimes

[FreyjaRKim]

The animal deaths are so heartwarming and sad at the same time. I dread the moment I receive a notification about one of my animals' imminent death. Then, I remember one time, I found my evil chicken fighting Grim Reaper when he was supposed to send my elderly chicken off, the evil chicken won and my elderly chicken survived for some more days. It always cheered me up knowing there is this mechanic in the game. lol

[mikguts]

i once had wicked whims installed, and had peeping toms enabled. i was doing a legacy challenge and had just moved my current gen into a new house. my sim's elderly mother spawned as a peeping tom and died of overexertion 💀💀

[MicrowavedAlastair]

"Devoured by the Mother Plant" genuinely haunts me.

Especially with how long it takes for the gravestone to appear. It never takes Grim that long when he's tapping away on his tablet.

[MysteryFlavored]

I feel there was a missed opportunity to make the 'Death by Chicken' sim Link from Zelda, but seeing Goku get his ass handed to him by a chicken was also pretty good

[cancel_culture_manager]

Sims 4 aren't my fave but some of the types of death are worth to watch, the death animation from The Rent expansion pack hits way different from the rest of them all.

[ImUsingMy_RoseToy]

Its great how much deaths are in this game but its a shame the chances of getting anything other than death by fire or starvation is so low in a normal playthrough

[cheesestakeclown]

the falling from heights one is, in my opinion, the one with the most morbid animation. The sims normally try to make everything about their game whimsical and silly, including something that isnt either of those things, death. So when they actually make a sim express genuine panic while trying to hold onto a cliff, only to fall and die INSTANTLY, especially if its something done by random chance, is kind of spooky :/

[comrade_macek]

Some people find few of the basic deaths unrealistic like anger or laughter one but i find it normal cause...
Dead by anger is basically Heart attack
Dead by laughter is suffocation due to the non-stop laughter that doesn't allow sim to breath in
So yeah, it is ok

[mickuri]

omg the scariest deaths have GOT to be the rodent fever, mold, laughter, and the computer overload one. they’re terrifying!!

the saddest has to be any of the animals, the old age (sim one), and the death by embarrassment is kinda sad too :( gets in a little ball and dies

[wow]

Death by laughter was my very first death in this game. My sim had just gotten engaged and was making silly gummy bear pancakes to bring his fiance breakfast in bed and DIED. I dropped the game for another year