All of those things are technically animals.
Forget about Lucario, why didn’t you ask him about Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town and Mount Pyre, which are explicitly graveyards for dead Pokémon?( So is Lost Tower, but Gen IV wasn’t out yet.)Water Pokémon Master said:When I talked to a Pokemon official at Worlds in 2005, they stated that Pokemon never die. Lucario would disagree, though the movie came out just a month before Worlds that year.