We gather here today to honour and pay tribute to the life of several Pokémon, and to express our love and admiration for them.

And also to try to bring some comfort to those of the fans who are here and have been deeply hurt by their favorite Pokémon's sudden passing.

These Pokémon weren't a particularly religious for the most part, so it's befitting that their funeral ceremony should reflect what they were, ...... a gentle, .....kind, ......loving Pokémon; devoted to their fans.

It's only natural that we should be sad today, because in a practical sense, these Pokémon are no longer a part of our lives, "we must die, we know" said a character in Shakespeare, " tis but the time and drawing days out that men stand upon", and so we all come to ponder the life and death of these truly wonderful Pokémon; with confused and mixed feelings.

For we have a powerful sense of loss; combined with a recognition that; if death must come, its as well that its not unduly prolonged, we don't want to see someone we love suffer, so this sorrow; and our sense of the fitness of things; don't sit easily together, one purpose of our proceedings here today; is in some way to try to reconcile those feelings.

I encourage all of you who lost a Pokémon you loved to post a few words about them and what made them special to you so that you can begin the grieving process.