When a flower dies, does it remain a flower, cease to exist, or become something else?

Question

^_^ I hope you can see the logic and religious correspondence to this question.

Answer 1

A lot of religious (and non) correlations
1 it dies and goes back into the ground to become fertilizer (just as the human body does)
2 it produces a seed (or tuber) that evolves into another, yet the same flower (re-incarnation, a multitude of beliefs)
3 it produces a memory and maybe a written record of it's existence (yet another multitude of religions represented)
4 it possibly provided a substance (herb) that can be used to relieve suffering from disease or injury (yet more beliefs)
5 it may provide a lasting scent that provides a pleasing sensation, tho temporary (see #4)
6 it may (depending on the kind of flower) provide food to other beings
7 it may do all or any part of the above!
However, flowers are not sentient beings therefor contain a different kind of energy than people or animals, tho it is my belief that all things have a spirit of sorts (goes back to my Comanche & Pecti-Witan roots)
Did you get what you were expecting?
BB
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Answer 2

I'm sorry about this confusing answer.

When a flower dies, it reaches full actualization of all potential, and thus passes out of being. The essence, nature, and attributes of the flower remain. Being is a form of energy that is created when a potential form moves from abstraction to an individual hypostasis. Metaphysically, effect precedes cause - the flower comes into being in order to fulfill a pre-existing potential, or 'reason' (logos) that exists in the mind of God. 'Being' flows from potential (form) to actual (matter) like water flowing into a glass, and that process is called 'hypostasis.' Once the 'reason' or effect has been fulfilled, there is no transfer of energy from potential to actual. At that point the matter passes out of the form, and the flower passes from hypostasis back to logos. The beginning and end of the flower are the same - logos, reason, or essence.

'Energy,' in this sense, refers to the Aristotelian energia, not necessarily the 'energy' of modern physics.

Answer 3

There is only a finite amount of energy in the universe. Energy is never lost, only converted into another form. Your flower will decompose and release nitrates into the soil and become energy for the bacteria that decomposed the flower.

Answer 4

The idea of the flower never is touched by the seeming material death of it. Anything that can die to our senses never lived, and the things of God are eternal. The bottom line is that only a lie can be subject to death, but the spiritual truth (the original idea) is forever. This is a difficult concept for the seasoned human belief.

Answer 5

Well, the cells decompose and become humus, which may eventually get used by another plant to grow. Or it dies because it gets eaten and becomes part of an animal (or manure).

Just like us really. It certainly doesn't sit on a cloud playing a harp.

Answer 6

Once a flower, always a flower. Until it returns to the dust from whence it came as with all things physical. But in our mind and heart, we remeber the flower, however beautiful or fleeting.

Answer 7

Sometimes, when a flower dies it creates a seed which lives on.

Answer 8

Sometimes when a flower dies it just withers away, other times, depending on what kind of flower it is, it will have seed pods on it, when they drop to the ground they will reseed themselves!

Answer 9

It's called a dead flower for a while until it's called compost, like anything else.

Answer 10

How do you expect human being to answer that question? It might be just like art. "The beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." So, "the living is in the eyes of the beholder." I guess when you die, you loose everything. So, live would exist, for you. For the living, lives does exist. Unless, if you're in heaven looking down upon us.