Becoming butterflies

A friend’s mother just passed away after a long illness and I truly feel her sorrow. My daughter tells her young children that in death people become flowers. That you transform. and that makes sense. We don’t know what happens to consciousness after death.  Our atoms survive in a different form. The energy that we are converts into something else.

The question: Does the butterfly remember being a caterpiller or its death in that form to metamorph into something entirely different?