Gravestone

An urn or gravestone appears on the lot when a Sim dies. An urn can be placed on the floor or on tables and counters. A gravestone can be placed on ground. Sims can "Mourn" over graves or urns. With Nightlife, they can be moved to a community lot.

In The Sims 2, if a Sim had a platinum status when he/she died of old age, a gold gravestone/urn will appear and if you look closely at the gold urn the dead Sim's aspiration symbol will be on it. If your Sim had a disturbed or troubled life, where few wants were fulfilled or many bad things happened, this will result in a gray gravestone/urn.

In The Sims 3, the plaque on the gravestone shows how they died. There are at least 3 different types of graves in the grave yard that comes with the game, a flat plaque like one, a tall obelisk type and another similar to those in The Sims 2.

You have the option of whether to keep the grave on the Sim's home lot or to put it into Sunset Valley Cemetery.