Drowning

Drowning and Sims

 * A Sim will drown in a pool when there is no means of getting out. Deleting a poor ladder takes away the Sim's only means of escape. However, in The Sims 3, they can climb out of the pool without a ladder, so a wall must block them. Since they can't get out, the Sim will keep swimming in the pool until their energy is all used up. When this happens the sims will die of fatigue. Drowning is a form of death in The Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. Drowning is the second form of death which covers all the ages between child to elder, the other being fire.

The Grim Reaper

 * When a Sim drowns, the Grim Reaper arrives as usual. However, you can not have another Sim plead with him as with other means of death. The Sim who has died has no chance of regaining life, unless they are resurrected.

Drowned Ghosts

 * A ghost who has drowned will be a shade of blue and will often create puddles or flood a room while they walk about. Other Sims may have to mop this up. Sometimes they will leap into bathtubs and start the bath water. Afterwards, they will jump out.
 * In The Sims 3, drowned ghost's color is still blue and they have water dripping from they body, but it won't create puddles (Might be assumed as ghostly water).

Notable Drowned Sims

 * Skip Broke, resident of Pleasantview and father of Dustin and Beau Broke, and former husband of Brandi Broke, mysteriously drowned in a pool accident.
 * Willow Nigmos, sister of Olive Specter, was drowned. Her tombstone rests in Olive's yard.
 * Ichabod Specter also died of drowning.
 * Erik Darling, Agnes Crumplebottom's husband drowned, which led to her beating everyone with her purse.
 * Tragic Clown in The Sims 3 drowned.

The strange thing about drowning is that you have to purposely kill the sim by letting him/her swim and deleting any means of getting out. the sim can't drown by themselves which is unrealistic.