The death of a flower symbolises many different aspects of life being lost or wearing away. If flowers are shown within the home then people tend to throw them away before they can see them begin to turn brown or die as they don't like the feeling of the concept or reality of death. A flower represents life through the starting of the shoot to the bud and then to the flower, ending with the brown and crisp petals on the floor.
People don't want to believe that they are going to die.
Vanitas paintings are a type of symbolic art that tend to centre around the themes of life and it's fragility in which they were very common in medieval funerary art.
By the 15th century these could be extremely morbid and explicit, reflecting an increased obsession with death, decay and the overlapping motif of the skull. Paintings in the vanitas style are meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. They also provided a moral justification for many paintings of attractive objects.
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