CHAIRPERSON
Dear friends, thank you very much for coming and exposing your anguish and your pain.  Yesterday we heard from another family who the end result of their request was much the same as yours, and especially the last statement that you read, and I greeted Phoenix, and she is beautiful.  Would you like to stand?  Thank you very much.  There isn't a great deal often that you can say that doesn't seem facile.  I mean in the face of anguish and pain.  It's such a deeply personal and intimate thing, and when anyone outside of that circle of pain speaks then you sound almost like a Job's comforter, it being easy on a full stomach to praise fasting.  But I would hope you have a sense of people being supportive.  