This will seem odd, but your comment about cooking for those who are gone. Reminded me of these trees on the plains that are gradually going extinct as their range keeps shrinking.

Their fruit is too big for any living mammal to eat. So it never falls far from the tree.

It used to be eaten by the giant ground sloths that roamed the plains during the last ice age. They all went extinct about 10,000bce at the end of the last ice age.

The tree is still "cooking" for those who are gone.

Do you think trees remember and mourn for those who have "passed on"?