Forum:Exactly how rare is this?

when i was looking through some articles on this wiki, under the "types of death" category, i saw this:

Fire: If a Sim is on fire for a period of time, he/she will die. It is also possible for a Sim to randomly burst into flames via spontaneous combustion, though that is VERY uncommon.

what i want to know is, how uncommon is it? has it ever happened to you? is there a mod to make it happen more often?
 * I have never seen it either. GG   (t)  •  (c)  •  (b)  14:21, January 23, 2011 (UTC)

It has never happened to me. I read that this CAN happen in real life and around 250 deaths are considered to have happened due to it. It happens when people get too stressy. I think keeping the sim in a low mood for around 2 weeks without letting them die, usually at -3, can trigger this, but I can't say for sure. It's EXTREMLY rare. |_Andronikos Leventis Talk 16:37, January 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * I've never heard of this happening in real life either: Spontaneous_human_combustion. I have not ever heard of this happening in the game, but I also don't make a point of making my Sims absolutely miserable so it's not likely that I would experience this anyway. --  LostInRiverview talk · blog 17:17, January 23, 2011 (UTC)

Spontaneous human combustion does not happen in real life, it's an urban legend. However, it does happen in The Sims 1. I believe there is a tiny chance of it happening when a Sim comes home from work: I've also heard that due to a bug the flames may not appear and it will look like the Sim has just randomly dropped dead. --Anoz 09:35, January 30, 2011 (UTC)