I'm asking this out of personal curiosity, not for school. but it's still for educational purposes kinda, so I hope it's okay. If a flower is wilted, but not totally dead and withered yet, is the flower dead and it's dead flower body is in the process of decomposing, or is the flower like in the flower stage of being an old person, it lived and now it's old, but not dead yet?

Here's an example of the flower stage I mean. ^-^