台湾医学院的“大体老师”，上课前要先鞠躬

Taiwan's medical schools use donated bodies for anatomy classes, and the students call them "Great Body Teachers."

Before class begins, there is a ritual: students must first get to know their teacher, learning who they were in life, what work they did, and what their wishes were. At some schools, family members come to tell the students stories about their loved one; the students bow and observe a moment of silence for the teacher, and the whole class stands in a line before the teacher and says: "Teacher, thank you for your trouble today."

During the course, students learn to treat every cut as an act of respect for the teacher, and every piece of tissue must be returned. Around 2000, Tzu Chi University's College of Medicine implemented the "Silent Mentor" approach, one of the first schools to carry out this ritual in a complete form, and other schools later followed suit.

Throughout the semester, students care for everything used on the teacher's body. At the end of the course, there is a farewell ceremony: the teacher's body is sutured, dressed in clothes, cremated, and the students accompany the family to see them off.

There are also rumors that strange things have happened in some dissection rooms—for example, someone hears rustling sounds at night, or something moving in the formalin tank. Some say it is because students disrespected the teacher and were sought out by them. Whether this is true, no one can confirm. More common are thank-you letters written by students, saying that after taking this course, their view of life and death is different from before.

Later, many medical schools on the mainland also adopted this practice, holding a ceremony to pay tribute to the Great Body Teacher before anatomy class begins.

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