User blog comment:John Marston9896/Sims, Sims and even more Sims/@comment-3033806-20101029155238

As long as you call the firefighters if a fire breaks out, don't build a wall around a pool while a Sim is swimming in it, starve them to death or try to repair and electrical object in water, they'll live and eventually die of old age.

The real challange is making them is live a successful life.