Cloning a dead sim: VBT?

[seelindarun]

It seems that Simsurgery will let me apply the genes of dead sims to living ones, but would that mean borkination for my 'hood?  Or is it just creepy and weird?

[Jelenedra]

As long as you follow the directions for SimSurgery, you should be alright.

[jolrei]

Should be fine, provided you are either:
1) changing the genetics/appearance of an existing sim (there is a tutorial on this at MTS2)
2) Cloning and installing as an entirely new sim.

The bad thing would be if you just deleted the character file of the dead sim.

[seelindarun]

No, I don't intend to do anything necromantic with the dead sim.   His file is fine (I think), and his tombstone remains intact.

I was following the custom servo tute in Peasantry, but didn't want an exact copy of any of my playable sims, living or dead.  Briefly, I considered making a suitable donor in CAS, but then I read over the Deleted Boogaloo tute.  I decided I'm not ready for that yet.   I settled on cloning the dead sim's genes onto the servo and then splicing the skin from a different sim. 

Sometimes the tools in SimPE are obvious and simple, and sometimes there are traps to VBT where you never imagined.  Just checking.
Baa.