I'm still on my first gen family, although they're down to mom (age 59) and the youngest child (age 15), and was wondering at what ages everyone else's "parents" passed away ....

I also have a cat, and have wondered how long it will be around, or if it lives forever. (Cats do, you know.)

60 has been the oldest I got so far.

My first adoptee passed at 58, and her husband passed at 61. So far, the dog seems to be sticking around

mine passed away at 57

Only my 1st generation is gone. They went at 57 and 59. Second generation is in their early 50's so we will see soon. I am hoping they make it to 60 so I can get a trophy.

So far my oldest is 61. He has a 6 year old that he adopted. His wife died at 59.

My oldest so far was 62. He might have been older as he died while the game was off I didn't see his age for several hours.

The pets seem to live forever so far as I can tell. One of my families is on its third generation and have a dog that started out halfway though the first generation.

60 is the oldest I have had so far, with my last two parents departing at the very same time (god bless them - they couldn't be apart), at 57.

I think the new update says it adds to the age, so I hope we can have our parents around a little longer than late 50's to early 60's as that is a bit depressing to those of us who might be closer to that age than we like to admit.

I haven't been able to get anybody to 60 yet.

I have one at 55 and I pause it when I am gone so I can make sure she doesn't get sick and die when I'm gone. I'm so glad they are living longer. I agree, it's a bit upsetting if they are close to our own ages. Real life people are living longer and longer. :-)

Ain't that the truth!

Well, I just downloaded the .04 update, so when I finally move on to the next gen, we'll see how long they can go.

I have downloaded the newest patch and am still on my first family. I have one at 61 and one at 60 and they are still ticking. I will keep you all posted on the progress.

I've had two adults hit 65 before.

My first gen were 56 and 58 or something like that.

I've got one that is 66 now and should be turning 67 before too awful long. Still go full heath and seems to be going strong.

My oldest just died at 65. The husband is still living and is 63.

My oldest died during the night at some time. If they age 1 year every 2 hours then he was about 68 - 69 when he died. My wish for VF, after they pass, you could click on their pic on the family tab to see what they died of and their age at time of death.

my first generation all died late 50's. the second generation, around 60 to 62. they get old SOOO fast. at 45 they start to get stooped over and gray. i'm over 45 and i'm pretty sure i'm not stooped over and gray.
would it be too much to ask for a little hair dye in the next version?

Yeah, I'd like to see that, too. Since they do that in the VV games, it shouldn't be too difficult to do it in VF.

ok, in one of my second gen families, i expected them to be dead this morning, but they are both 65 now. they're my favs, so that's a good thing.

2nd generation died at 66 and 68.

i jinxed em, they only lived to 65.

I started my families off again after the 05 update, so I'm just at the point where my 1st gen parents are about to go I think.

He is 68 & she is 66. I'm nervous each time I check in on them. I went to bed last night thinking I'd wake up and they'd be gone, but they're still hanging in there. I'll report back, hopefully in a few more VF years.

My oldest so far was 70 for about an hour. and then she passed

Well she made it to 67, and Jumbo lived on for 1 year without her and made it to 70. I wonder what the average age is?

Right now Tessa and her Husband Ben are both 48

My most recent seniors passed away together just as I opened the game, so I didn't get to see their ages. I *really* wish LDW would patch VF to create an obituary or something that would show the ages of the peeps when they die.

Yes, like a gravestone like in VV ;-;

Exactly! If they've done it once, they can do it again!

Also would be really nice if ghosts would come a visit and see if everything is ok. JUST something...I hate writing everything in their notes, ALSO did you realize how little space to put in notes? Just like a sentence not even that hardly.

I second that request! err, umm, third it? I had the exact same thing happen and I don't have a clue how old they were as it was right when I opened my game.

Well, so far the oldest mine have gotten are 56 and 57 (1st generation), so they are still ticking for now, lol.

My oldest so far is 68y...but I'm still trying to get a higher number

I am soooo with you on the age. Do they just disappear? Do the others still around become depressed, or just go on? I wonder if I need to keep around of bottle of Tropical Sunshine and extra goodies to boost their spirits...

my eldest so far is 72. i expected him to be dead this morning, but he's still ok.
i got them the treadmill when they were very young and had them use it frequently. i wonder if that's even relevant.

Mine only live to about 60, sometimes not even. I have one who is 60 now, he seems OK, we'll see how long he lasts.

update: Gregory just made it to 61 which is a record for me!

I have a couple who are 60 & 63 at the moment. The oldest I've had was 70, and a set of parents went quite young in another family at around 60 & 61.

So far my oldest - THAT I KNOW OF (insert scowly face) - was 65.

Would ***love*** to see a patch that creates an obit for our peeps.

I had one that made it to 70 also, but what I've noticed is that most of my 1st generation peeps were fairly young -- around 60, 61. Then, as there is more money to upgrade, buy more leisure stuff for them, better food, etc. they tend to live longer. But yes, I wish that when one of them died that something would state how old they were and what level they were at in their career.

My first seniors passed away around 50~60, now i'm on my second, i have a couple with wife/husband 40/43 :<

Whats the oldest you had your peep die?

I had a first generation couple who died within a minute of each other. The husband was 70 and his wife was 69. Sadly, she died before he did.


(And Michael was married, just changed to no after Cara passed)

Wow, you're lucky ... I think my oldest was 64.

Aww he still have a mohawk!! @.@

My oldest was 64 also

my oldest was 71, She outlived her husband by 6 VF years... My little Cheyenne, I miss her

Mine was 64 too, he outlived his wife by 2 years. I wish one of my peeps would reach 70, i want that trophy

What version do you have, kp0712?

1.00.05 (I think, maybe earlier) reduced the age for that trophy to 65. If you bought the game from LDW I'd upgrade if I were you.

I'm not sure how old my oldest peep was. She was three years older than her husband who was 67 when I opened the game to find she'd died. She might have reached 70, therefore.

i had a woman of 65 named blossom. her husband leon of 64 died at the exact same time as her it was cool that they passed with each other

I just checked and it was version 1.00.04. not .05

My first older one was Chico, he was 65 and I got the trophy. It's a shame he got to live alone for that, as his wife had already passed and I just kept him going for the trophy. (evil evil girl I am!).

Later on I've got Lilella who was 65 when her husband died and I went to the next generation - I really liked her and was brokenhearted to see her sad like that.

I was going to ask how any of you knew how old your little peeps were when they died, but now I see several of you have already posted a request for that info to be added in an update. All my poor little dears have died in "our" sleep or when I was out of the house, even before I upgraded to .05. So, I've never known how old my oldest has been, and I suppose I never will. I had the 70 trophy on a few families before my upgrade and have the wise trophy on all families now. I'm disappointed if one of mine doesn't make it to 65 and feel like I did something wrong, like I didn't spend enough time training them right or something.

For what's it worth, I'll add that I would really, really like to have the age at death available on the family screen as well.

Initially, when you went into the game and they had died you could click on them and it would say "lying in repose" and it also told their age. I always put in the notes their age of death. After I upgraded it didn't show that anymore which was very disappointing. So I agree, it would be nice to have some indication of their age when they die.

I always miss it, but I know that none of my peeps have reached 65

The oldest I had was 70.

My oldest was 66; however, I always got impatient for marriage and babies before and forced retirement. This was the first time I made myself let the person die in her own good time. (why does that last line sound so bad? lol)

Wow you guys have had them for a while the oldest i had one was 62

I'm On my first gen and the mom is 59 and the Dad is 56 and still going....

the oldest i had was 71 or 72, i think

My elsest so far has been 65. I was so surprised and quite upset at the time. All his specs were almost full up to the top and he was running around like a spring chicken celebrating his marriage after I gave him a bottle of the male aftershave. Talk about bad timing!

I had one make it to 67 but usually they hit 65 and Boom - that's it. No matter how well I've taken care of them...

I guess I'm lucky though, I rarely loose anyone before age 64 or 65.

All three people that died in my game were 63! I try to keep them alive as long as I can, but they just die in their early 60's anyway.

My mom on my 1 gen died at 61 and dad 60.

My oldest one was 68 years old.

all of mine have died between 53-64

Updating mine to 69. BY my reckoning he can't have been much more than a couple of minutes away from 70. Sheesh talk about bad timing!

My Sarah Palin lookalike, Farrah, is 70 today. I'm keeping a close watch on her. Even though her health bar is maxed I know it won't be long.

My oldest died at 65.

My little Farrah died this evening between the age of 71 and 72. Here she was at lunchtime with completely full health and happiness bars.

Wow! Farrah has lived a very long life.. I have yet to see my peeps reach 70, closest being 69 >_< Sorry for your loss Lewanda!

Great genetics there for Farrah's kids. Lately my parents have
been dying younger, late 50's, early 60's. Still being a caring 'hand in the sky', but they seem intent on their own life.

gmomluvsvv, I buy every piece of fruit and vitamins that comes into the store. I keep one of each in the tooltray, and when a duplicate fruit or bottle of vitamins appears in the store I give it to the parent who's health bar is the lowest. By the time they reach a certain age they'll both have maxed out health bars. It tends to make them live from one to three years longer I believe.

Oh my goodness, I just cried for the first time from a death in a long time.. it is generation 4 of my Rainbows and for the first time I saw both the husband and wife die together.. it's such a sad but beautiful thing to witness.



They were any age from 64-66. Lived the longest from anyone in the Rainbow family! You can treat them like kings and queens and they still all have their time to go.

I'm sorry Lyssaria! I've had quite a few go together, and yes, it's hard to lose both at the same time.

I think we can help them to sometimes live a few extra years, but for the most part I think it's a random generator that decides when they go.

So sorry to hear of Farrah's passing Lewanda. I think she's been reincarnated to my adoptee Tilde.

OH NO! I want her back in my family Miss Kathy. Lol!!!

Farrah was a good little peep. I do miss her, but her daughter is doing well too.

My wife's couple became 68 (her) and 67 (him)... the oldest ones so far.

I'll trade you for a purple fly! LOL!

Weeeelllll...I don't know about giving up my fly. It took me generations to find it. LOL!!!!

Uncommon bug....I'm one of the 10 that understands binary! LOL I love your tag.

Back on topic, my oldest lived to 66...maybe 67 as she died overnight. I've got an exercise fanatic who may top that tomorrow morning!

how old can they be before they stop having kids???

There isn't an actual number out yet, but the oldest I've seen was someone's peeps having a baby at 57 years old on the forum. It's very rare though, it starts getting very difficult to have children in the late 40's.

For those of you that have nothing to do on VF anymore, like me, then you start to keep track of things, right? Well, we've had many topics for VF threads, such as:

1: Comics
2: How many generations
3: Mods
4: Glitches
and 5: The family in general

... But the closest discussion we've had about the relative age of our peeps isn't even two pages.

So, I have a question for you:

How old is YOUR oldest Peep?

71

My oldest is about 65. At least on version 1.00.05.

My oldest was at least 70 since I got the award, but I don't know exactly how old as she had died while the game was off so I was greeted by her deathbed scene when I reopened it. The same thing has happened in two families.

86 is about what i had for the oldest.... yeah.

What?! In VF? I didn't know that was possible without cheating. How did you do it? Did you make them work out every chance you get? The "Wise" trophy must have been a piece of cake for you!

Incredible. That's the only thing I can say

89 believe it or not and that was before my laptop died...
I took really good care of her....

WOW! That's cool!

I took really good care of her and her love . they where hardly sick too.

I'm shocked!

My oldest was 67, and probabally would have lived longer if I hadn't experimented on what anitibiotics can do to you if you're not sick (in the game).Most of my peeps die overnight though; I never see them go over to the bed.

I have had a cat for 4 generations, so i think pets live forever. My oldest person has been about 62 i think, not very old at all, im wondering do they live any longer?

Yes they do the oldest I have had one live to is 69. Others have had them live longer.

I had never had anyone in this game live past 63 (and only 3 peeps lived to that age), and was starting to feel that the "Wise" trophy would always be unreacheable (I have the old version of VF where they need to get to 70, not 65).
The other day, though, I went to check on my families, who had been unpaused for some 7 VF years, and both members of a couple had died at 66! I was so happy to see they'd lived so long compared to the others (I guess my peeps have a life expectancy of around 58 or 59 years). Now the goal of reaching the age of 70 seems much closer.

my oldest person was only 57!

I'm looking at the screen shots and wonder why my VF game doesn't have the same looking rooms. Is there a different version of the game I can download so I can get my VF house to look this way? I'd love some upgrades. Thanks for any info.

The Mac/PC versions of the game can be altered with visual modifications (mods) which are created by forum users.

The forum where you can locate the mods is Virtual Families Mods, but remember to read the Installation Instructions first.

I've had several live to 70 and 71.

71. I micromanage. Always totally full always given handsanitizer and fruit and energy drinks.

Even having upgraded to a newest version of the game since I last posted here (which did help a lot with the "reaching age 65" trophy, got that one only after 3 generations or so this time around), I still haven't managed to get peeps to live past 66 (I've had three of them die at age 66 over the 6-7 generations I've been playing this family).
All peeps in this family have lived to be at least 60, though (which is also an improvement from the older version - I had peeps die at ages 56-59 quite often back then).