When I started VF I choose Veronica, an engineer with a lovelly petit-pois red dress. Well, she quite has died on solitude and sadness because I didn't give her a good-enough husband. So, I choose her "Leonard", they got Madeleine, the triplets Amanda, Yolanda and Miranda, and then appeared Katiana, an orphan.

Well, a real week passed or almost 40 years passed in the game. The day Katiana went to college, Leonard died. Veronica was again depressed, exhausted and alone. An email arrived: not a kind word of the triplets or 1st daughter. Instead someone who said hate her hair and is going out the city. I gave her two Extra Camomila Drinks. I hope she sleeps thru the other side.

I am going to uninstall VF.

It is too much sad to me.

My condolences on your loss.

I also thought that maybe the older kids would come home, or come visit, or something. I had my first person die without warning (she hadn't even hit 60 yet) and her husband was left depressed. I realized he wasn't going to cheer up, and since I had been sort of attached to her myself (she was the original character I started with), I couldn't stand watching him by himself, so I started the next generation. But, where's Dad? I am wondering if daughter shipped him off to a home so she could have the house to herself. I prefer to think he is living at a retirement village and plays golf every day.

Thanks for your msgs, Luvplay and Fluffy.
I know it is just a game. But, come on!!, I play to feel happy, to have a good time. Now I am really sad...

My husband said: what kind of game is this? is that a lesson to children learn? To let their elders alone? Without news or else?
It is unfair: just one son have all: money, house, and a new life free of elders...

I really hope LDW rethink death and elders VF's next versions.

Yes it is very sad.

I really hated that thing of the children going to college and not even sending a "how are you guys" e-mail. I only got some e-mails of how they were in college on my 1st generation (I'm on my 3rd now).

My second generation couple died together, it was quite beautiful (if you could put it that way). I was away the whole night and when I started the game I noticed they were quite close together in bed (usually they sleep a bit apart from each other). Then the Adolfo's soul left his body, waved at me and the passing message came. Then the same thing happened to Pearl.
At least they were not left alone to suffer. They only left a 13 year-old son and I jumped to the next generation.

I think I'm not soooo sad when a generation ends cause we can play with their kids...

That happened to my first couple - they died together. Quite sad. They were only 65 and 63. That nosy neighbor probably found them - saw them through the window with his binoculars, no doubt.

The couple in my second family died even younger - Fabette died first at 58. Bohi was left by himself as the four kids were all off at college, so I bought him a dog to cheer him up. I thought there would be some interaction with pets, but I guess not. Then I was hoping that Bohi could remarry since he was only 60, but I guess that doesn't happen either. Bohi died several hours later at age 60.

I hate that these guys die so young! My Isola peeps lived longer than these guys do - maybe their diet of fish, fruit and coconuts was healthier for them than the organic stuff I'm feeding these guys. Or they are eating too many snacks.

Nothing better as a well sleeping night...

I was thinking about the game and what happened to my Veronica. Now I am a little glad. I explain:

1) I realized the game is cultural. It is perfectly normal children left their parents home to college and their individual lives in USA.

2) After 5 years living in Portugal I am really becoming a Portuguese (I'm Brazilian, from São Paulo). Portuguese people "love" to be sad. Sadness is a kind of beauty. Feeling blue they play "fados", as they say, "with a tear in the throat". Life is full of drama!

I am NOT going to uninstall my game. Veronica is still living. Today she made coffee, but is taking a nap. She is 62 y.o. now, and I am not a nut, it is just a game, I am curious to play the next generation.

But, please, LDW, next versions: more kind emails to the widows or lonely daddies from the children, not msgs such "jealous with the new baby" or "excited with the new baby" when mom dies, nor "I hate your hair" emails. Deal?

The I hate your hair mails are at random mails. My people get them all the time.

One of my VF members died this morning. My daughter who likes my 'little people' as she calls them, likes to know what they're up to. She'll sit and watch them wander around working or whatever, is interested in their work, babies and such.

I told her that the mother of my family had died this morning and described it to her. Her words: "Oh, she went to live with Jesus", which is what we tell her, with her great grandparents dying over the past few years. Now I have whole little virutal family heaven in my computer.

It teaches them enough to know that it's like life. Not many children stay with older parents. It's life, a virtual life, but life nonetheless.

Yes, but we don't ignore them for years until one parent dies, then kick the other one out of the house and claim it for ourselves. LOL!