By jess 01/12/2011	Hi I've only recently begun playing Virtual Families, my parents are in their mid fifties and their eldest has gone off to college. Just wondering if anyone knows how long these little people live for on average, do they simply die of old age or can an illness kill them? Do you have to wait for both parents to die before you can pick your next generation?

By jess 01/12/2011	I've done some reading and answered my own question. For future reference to anyone else: Adults will pass away in their 60's on their bed. You then have 2 choices; a). continue in the current game and try to uplift their spirits after suffering loss of loved one. b). click on family tree link and choose next generation and begin a new family with one of yous adult children.

By meme 02/10/2011

You can stop them from dying. When you open the family up, if you see someone lying on the bed, hit the space bar to pause the game (as long as their spirit hasn't yet appeared to wave goodbye). If you have the money, buy a stethoscope and while game is still paused use it on the dying person. If an illness is diagnosed, cure them. If nothing is wrong, then buy and use babyboost. Then unpause the game. This should save them. They will jump up on the bed and wave thanks to you. If fruit, vitamins, or an energy drink is available at the store, give it to them. Now at first the family will act as if they were dead and at first you won't be able to pick them up. their picture won't appear in details. but, if you give them the fruit or vitamins that usually puts their picture back. I did this not only with adults, but I had a ten yr old girl almost die and I saved her life.

By kak 02/26/2011

WOW! I have been playing for months and never been able to save a dying person! The average age my people die is 58. No matter how healthy they are, they die. I had one live to age 68 and one died at 16. He had a cough, I treated it, he kept getting weaker and weaker-tried penicillin, vancomyacin, etc. nothing worked. Vitamins, fruit, nothing worked. One day he just died in the bed in the children's room! With families in the 8th generation that is the only time I have had a child die. ALSO the parents never "got over it." Usually when a parent dies, the family is depressed for a few hours, then gradually they become a "bit blue" and then happy and then elated. These parents had two other children and they wouldn't watch movies with them, work on their careers, or anything except bathe and eat. They stayed depressed until they died at 58 and they were like 45 when he died! Strange!

By katrina <3 03/06/2011	about 60 o n they age about 3 yrs ova nite n 3 in the day n each generation lasts about 1 week

By savannah<333 03/18/2011	i tried that thing where you try to save them when there on the bed before there spirit appears to say bye. it didnt work for me, he died. i tried to use the stethescope on him, but it wasnt working, just like there was nobody there to use it on. 'Hubby' was a good 60 year old man:/ i miss him. lol.

By mina 05/05/2011	Oh no my mom is 57, that means she will probably die soon....that makes me sad!!

By kayla 06/09/2011	It's okay. Usually the average human lives to their late 80's and early 90's. But she can live to a hundred something if she is healthy enough.

By by:selena 06/11/2011

" Your virtual family members will be aging a year every two hours (real-time). They normally will pass away in their 60’s, occasionally in their late 50’s. That means you could be starting a new generation every 3 or 4 days. As soon as one of the parents has died, you will be have the possibility to start a new generation from the family screen. If you don’t have any children, your game will stop right there. You will be able to scroll through the children and learn more about them etc., as often as you like, so don’t be afraid to press the “try again” button. All the children will automatically be the around the same age as their parents when they moved in into the house. " - Source - Gamezebo

By lizz16 07/04/2011	they can live up to the max of 78 but most likely to die at 60 or in the 60s

By abby kelly 03/06/2012

so wierd, my wife on my ipod virtual families was 66 and the husband's name is Flicker and he's 61. The wife died before Flicker, which is really wierd. The wierd thing is that the wife wasn't sick or anything. Another thing that's wierd: At 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday March 6, 2012 is that the same wife was still alive; her status said Elated. I came back five minutes later and she's dead! I thought she was going to be 70! Wierd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By peanut-butter! 03/11/2012	They will die in their 60's on their bed!! ;) hope I helped!

By swaqq12 03/14/2012	lolsoooo freaking truee

By vfluver 04/04/2012	Yeah, thanks everyone for helping me awnser my questions. I have a man and he is 61, all of his bars are full and he has mastered his profession. His wife died ad all the children moved out. Can the people die from being alone in the house for a couple days? I just wanted to know how old they can get... So maybe I will have something to look forward to. He might be 78!! Thanks everyone

By kkjk;;/. 04/17/2012	no tey wsont dfir ,kk

By tyler denae 04/18/2012	I have 2 virtual families. One is 68 year old and his wife is (i think) 84. It's wired because when they got married the wife was a "year" older than her husband now she is "2 years" younger than her husband.....

By anounamous 12/30/2012	That's so true the same thing happend to me. What's going on?

By gracgirl17 01/02/2013	I'm rely want to know if The parents can get to old to make babies. If that's true, how old until the can't have babies?? Plz answer my question!

By gracegirl17 01/02/2013	If you guys want twins then give both parents 1 baby boost each.

By denzell 01/06/2013	my virtual family just died at the age of 60

By vfamluva 01/12/2013	on the lite version, My pare...

By laney 02/05/2013	I was just wondering, when your current generation dies will they're money pass on to the next generation you choose or do you lose it?

By cotton candy/11 02/17/2013	My girl is 41 and she had twins twice and didn't even have a baby boost

By amy 02/19/2013

i have been thinking ... the husband and wife in vitrutual families when they die what will happen to their children? do they then have children? i have 6 children on that game and i was wondering what would happen, right now the 2 eldest daughters are 15/16 when their parents die what will happen to them and the other children? do the children grow older and get married? all very complex but does anyone know the answer?

By villager 02/19/2013	If you want to get a family member out of a depression go to their detail screen and click the 'Upgrade me' right above their head. Purchase psychotherapy and they should be fine!

By brittz 02/26/2013

i just had my second family's wife die. i have always choosen new generation and one of the children, of your choice, takes over the house and money and the rest of them move out. is there any way to not do this and get all of the kids married or do u have to pick just one (by choosing new generation) and play with just the one? will the father that just lost his wife remarry? basically i want to know if NEW GENERATION is the only option to move forward in the game

By hehebeb 03/07/2013	Josh duded

By periwinkleheadz 03/13/2013	So say if one parent dies and there's no children. The remaining parent gets remarried!! Yay!! This happened to my kristella and tone, I kept trying to make them have kids, but noo. Then tone died and boolo came!! But then kristella died but they still don't have kids! Then Camillo comes and boolo adopts him. Yay! So basically they can remarry.

By winter frey 03/16/2013	My mum is 56 and dad 57 so the...]

By cheats 03/22/2013	If you want to move on to a new generation then just change the date on your ipod. If you want them to be able to try for a baby sooner, then move the time forward 30 minutes.

By livingvirtual 03/22/2013

I have a little person ( mother ) who has just reached the age of 85. Idk how she is doing this but the husband died at 69. I got her psychotherapy after his death then she was fine. I always gave her perfect fruits from flea market and nothing but organic food. She also did a lot of gardening and focusing on career. All the other mothers in my other generations have had six kids. I had this mother only have 2.

By kids 04/01/2013	I do not have pearnts I do not know how to get pearnts do you know how

By kids 04/01/2013	I need help please

By pink 04/13/2013	THEY LIVE TO THERE LATE 50'S TO EARLY 60'S.

By golu 04/20/2013	Funny my 4th gen's dad lived to 87!

By fam fam 05/10/2013	My person is 33 And married and she had her first kid at 22 can they make another baby now? plz tell

By myself 05/12/2013	They can have a baby when the wife is not nursing or the baby you have is above the age of 3. Then you can have another baby. If you want twin give the husband and wife a baby boost and you should have twins. Hoped this helped!

By cat 05/13/2013	What do you do if both parents die before the kid reaches adulthood?

By jess 05/14/2013	I have had both parents die while the kid was only 15. I went into the family tree like you would do to start a new generation and clicked on her. She appeared as the new head of the house and it aged to 22 years old.