Hugh Thanasia is the brother of Lou Thanasia and is one of Olive Specter's many husbands. He died an early death, and, as with Olive's other husbands (including her ex-lover Earl E. DeMise, who left Olive at the altar), it is suggested that perhaps, Olive murdered him. This theory has not been proved, yet it is a strong possibility. His name is a pun on euthanasia. He died in a fire.
He reappeared in Midnight Hollow, also as a ghost. Like his The Sims 2 counterpart, he also died in a fire. Oddly, his skin is much paler and his eyes are white instead of blue in The Sims 3.
Hugh is buried in the cemetery on Olive's lot in both Strangetown and Midnight Hollow.