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Though The Sims 4 has always been about playing with life, all life does eventually have to come to an end, and with the focus squarely on all things afterlife inThe Sims 4: Life & Deathexpansion, you’ve got more thorough ways to say goodbye to your loved ones than ever before.
The pack adds the ability to hold formal funerals for your dearly departed Sims, events they’re able to influence long before their death if they leave behind a will. Gather their family and friends at the cemetery to say goodbye with a funeral in The Sims 4.
How Do You Hold A Funeral?
When a Sim’s time has come in The Sims 4: Life & Death, the Sims they’ve left behind are able toplan a funeral eventfor the departed Sim tocelebrate the life of a deceased Sim. No matter how long ago the death happened, a Sim can create a funeral event forany ghost with whom they have a relationshipin the Relationships tab. Family and friends are rendered as ghosts upon their passing, so you can create a funeral event whenever your Sims are ready to say farewell.
Curiously, you can have several funerals for the same Sim.
When it’s time, you may plan a funeral like any other social event in The Sims 4, like by goingon your phone in the Social tabor usingthe calendar beneath your active Sim’s portrait. The event planning screen will appear, and you’llchoose Funeralfrom the list of available options. You’ll need toselect the departed Simin the ornate section of the next menu before selecting a host Sim, which is typically the Sim planning the event.
On the event-planning screen, you candecide a guest listofup to eight other Sims, as well as hiringan entertainerif you’d like. You can evenHire Mournersto flesh out the funeral turn-out a little, up to four at any funeral. The next choice you’ll need to make for the event ischoosing a dress code and colorunder the Guest Attire menu at the bottom of the Plan an Event screen. A list of Guest Attire requests isn’t a requirement for a funeral, but it does keep a theme.
How To Get A Better Score On A Funeral
The next selection you’ll need to make when planning a funeral in The Sims 4: Life & Death is whichFuneral Activities to have at the funeral. It may seem a little odd to be worried about the “quality” of your funeral, but you don’t want to send your Sims off to the great beyond without a bang, right? Like other social events in The Sims 4, funerals in Life & Death aregoal-oriented events.
After choosing which activities to include in the funeral event, you’ll be givengoals based around your chosen funeral eventsto complete, all of which contribute to the score of the funeral. Choose however you feel is best to honor the departed Sim, choosingat least three activities, but you may choose each one if you so desire.
All Funeral Events In The Sims 4: Life & Death
The final selection you’ll need to make iswhere and when to have the funeral. You can choose to have it in a number of places, likethe departed Sim’s home lotif you’d like to keep things casual and homey for the family, or theEternal Rest cemeteryin the Crow’s Crossing neighborhood of Ravenwood, the world added in the expansion pack. The cemetery already has a number of decor items placed to honor the deceased, as well as plenty of empty grave sites andcrypts into which you can inter the departed Sim’s remains.
At The Funeral
After this, you’ll start the funeral event at the chosen time and date, which is listed on your calendar with a floral casket icon. An hour before the start time, you’ll get a reminder to go to the location of the funeral to set up. Use the Build/Buy catalog todecorate for the funeral, using somber scenery and an assortment of differentmemorial itemsthat you can customize to help remember the deceased during the event.
At the location of the funeral, you’ll need tocomplete Funeral Activity goalsto score points throughout the event, with the ultimate goal ofleading seven Funeral Activitiesthroughout the event. The event is timed, so be sure to socialize and remember the departed in the ways you’ve chosen to do so, as each action earns you points toward the funeral’s score. The deceased’s ghost will be watching!
When the funeral is over, the Sim who organized it not only gets rewards based on the score of the funeral, but they’ll alsoremain on the lot to grab the urn/tombstoneback. When you’re ready, you caninter the remains at a gravesite, whether that’s at the cemetery or on your home lot, or you can place them within Ravenwood’s various crypts around town.
