Maybe an X-Ray machine malfunctioned.

Julien Cope by kitchen fire. Grilled Cheese flambe.
Original Diva, death by pregnancy starvation. Mr Big had died of natural causes, so she was already shaken up. And there was a toddler to look after too. I was a new player, so it was too much for me (and her).
Nanny by trainset.
Priya Ramaswami, computer electrocution. She had no mech points. Hwoops.
A 4th generation Pleasant teenager. Another computer fail. He was an only child so his hippy mum resurrected him.
Satellite death in hot tub. That was so random and wild and shocking I had to go with it. I've had lightning strikes in hot tubs, but none have been lethal
A few Vampirism related deaths. At least two of them were essentially suicides, another was just bad timing.
Andromeda Zone was killed by dessert at University. Her family didn't seem to really care, but I did! I had a friend resurrect her via genie lamp... the only genie lamp in the university hood. (The lamps in the main hood would not allow it. huh.)

The best one. Victoria Morgan was on a dinner date with her husband Cody. She was hours away from eldering up and I wanted her to be at least temporarily platinum. So they were at Londoste and both parties had former (and current) lovers prowling about, so it was a delicate situation. Victoria slipped out to get some air, and started playing darts with an aquaintance. It started to rain. And then there was lightning. And then Victoria was a little grey urn. I was stunned.

Cody married his girlfriend (Marylena Hamilton) the next day. Some Family sims are like that. But Victoria was famous now though, and had a park named after her, and a university residence, and her grandson is the powerful mayor emeritus. The Morgan clan is now huge and she will live forever through them.

LOL. I worked out eventually that I had just seen my first elevator failure.



Wait, what, how?

I've had (in different neighbourhoods) death by old age, satellites, flies (using TOL&D), elevator crash, and Murphy bed squish. I use Murphy beds in all my bachelor suite apartments and almost had a heart attack the first time I saw it.

Someone should make that a chance card.

"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it..."
[Continue to ponder over life's great mysteries] ... [It's getting bigger and heading for your head! MOVE!]

lol, I was thinking more a career chance card for a Sim-NASA career - where the failure results in it smooshing someone and the Sim getting fired from their satellite trajectory calculation job.

^ That could work, too.

Death by Dessert was just flaming crepes suzette.

It'd have to come from a better writer than me, though. Also, depending on career level, it'd probably be more appropriate for that Sim to lose some days' pay and get demoted a few levels; getting a Sim fired from a level 7+ job for something that's not the player's direct fault is incredibly unfair, and that several Maxis careers themselves do it doesn't make it any less unfair.

I think I've had one from Baked Alaska once (at least a sim catching fire from it, can't remember if they survived) - up until then I did not know Baked Alaska involved alcohol (?) or fire (I'm not entirely sure I knew what Baked Alaska was, because it's not a thing where I live)

I do believe I've had this for dessert:


Reference: https://www.letseatcake.com/flaming-desserts/

All I really remember is that dessert was on fire-I was about 7 and we were at dinner with the neighbors. I'm sure that it was pretty yummy, too.

But how come death by chocolate is not a death!