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The other side is the observation of my Ex, a life-long hobby gardener: "Before plants die they often blossom unusually strong. But don´t be fooled. In truth it´s their last twitches, spending the last breath and energy in a desperate try to survive/reproduce".
Not to be unnecessarily maudlin, but that effect has been seen in humans as well. Sometimes a person in the last throes of life will suddenly focus, start talking, address people in the room before collapsing and dying. Occasionally they even rise up in the bed, showing tremendous physical effort in a last gasp of terminal lucidity. There is even a term for it: medical folks call it “rallying”, an oddly appropriate word for the similarities we are talking about.
Of course we don’t know if this is that yet, we will only know if the patient does, indeed, die, by which time it will be too late to congratulate ourselves on having predicted it.
