The dry seed pods without green chlorophyll contain seeds. Soon life will be gone for this plant. It will never exist again. However, half of its DNA is alive in the seeds. New life started at pollination with half of its DNA combining with half of another plants DNA and that grew into a small baby plant inside the seed pod. This small baby plant called an embryo was packaged into a seed. Seeds are dormant, sleeping, embryonic plants waiting for the right conditions to grow. Germination is when the seed grows on its own and is like the birth is of a baby. So, is a seed alive? Yes, but asleep or dormant. What will wake up the seed? Warmth, moisture, and light. This is different than humans, we cannot keep our babies asleep for periods of time and wake them up later when things are good for growing, but plants can. If this plant was not pollinated, then no seeds would have formed, and life would not have continued.