Thread:Jacobier/@comment-5060951-20120520021845

I saw the change on the page. I don't agree with either - his fate is not entirely unknown, because we have the last known time we saw him, and what happened to him. Rumplestiltskin turned him into a red rose, and Belle put him in a vase with water after cutting the stem. But - you tell me - what happened to that rose? Do you know it died? What evidence do you have? Do you know that the rose wasn't enchanted so when he gave it to Belle so that she would have an eternal bloom?

In theory, the rose could still come back up at a later juncture. The script has not yet foreclosed that possibility.

I would say the most technically correct status is "Turned into a rose" as opposed to deceased. 