Step One: Pick Your Victim

Imagine Jimmy the college Sim. He is a rotten apple. Jimmy has cheated on his fiancé. Jimmy is a slob. You tell Jimmy to do his college assignments and Jimmy quits halfway through them when you’re not looking. After all of your hard work pulling Jimmy’s dead-weight through college, he gets home to visit his parents and rejects his hardworking mother when she tries to hug him. It’s time for Jimmy to die because his ghost will be far more tolerable. But how will he die?

Step Two: Wrestle Your Conscience If You Have One

When this homicidal mood hits you, don’t be ashamed. There are many reasons why killing a Sim is acceptable and even good. Sim-death is a natural, entertaining, and even necessary part of playing. Without Sims being able to die there would be no way to make room for the next generation. And some Sims must die to increase the endangered Sim-ghost population. The creators of the Sims 2 have even encouraged players to invest in killing their Sims by color-coding the ghosts as follows:

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