Assertion: phoenix | /r/CapableOf | decompose before rebirth
Facets:
value: simply
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: These differences include the Phoenix having different colors, flying to Heliopolis instead of Phoenicia to be burned, carrying its predecessor's ashes with it to Paradise and bringing it back to be burned instead of first dropping them off at Heliopolis, having a life cycle of 500 years, creating a ball of incense and spices instead of a nest, stopping at the temple of the Sun instead of a random location, simply dying and decomposing before rebirth, and other differences.  
text: There are lesser known versions of the myth in which the phoenix dies and simply decomposes before rebirth.