1. Home Visit: Interacting with family members prior to commencement of workshop.

By visiting and interacting with the family members, students learn the life story and the wills of their silent mentor. With this, students know their silent mentor as a person rather than a cold cadaver for practice and look upon their silent mentor as a role model that practice altruism.

Students use words to depict their silent mentor. Narrative words that summarize the life of their silent mentor are always touching and express the deepest impression in their heart. Family members of silent mentor are invited for the brief introduction.

The first of the blessing of life’s final rites by Christian Priest, the initiation ceremony blesses and launches the four day program with participants greeting this with all their gratefulness.

Another final rites and blesses by Buddhist Reverend to Silent Mentor with their family members.

Another final rites and blesses by Roman Catholic Priest to Silent Mentor with their family members.

Silent mentors use their body to teach. Participants gain not only medical knowledge, the secrets of human body, practice complicated surgical procedures but also the philosophy of life.

As part of the blessing of life’s final rites, at the end of the professional training program, the students carefully examine again to make sure all the wounds are appropriately closed/sutured, dress their silent mentor properly in dignity and with their deepest gratitude, place their silent mentor in a gracefully designed coffin.

Students and trainers express their gratitude to their silent mentor. This reinforces the students and trainers to develop a life-long philosophy of gratitude, respect and love.


As part of the blessing of life’s final rites that prepares the silent mentor for cremation. Led by faculty members, trainers, students, family members and Tzu-Chi volunteers (if related) accompanied silent mentors for their final part of journey before cremation at crematorium centre of Nilai Memorial Park.

The family member will collect the ashes of silent mentor at Nilai Memorial Park for further arrangement by family member. The program is finished and the wishes of silent mentors are fulfilled.

Silent Mentor Centre (SMC) received notification from family member on terminally ill donor. Infectious diseases blood screen report (HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphillis & COVID-19) & latest medical history report of donor are to be furnished by family member to SMC for assessment of eligibility.

Upon the death of eligible donor, SMC will only arrange logistic to deliver the body upon issuance of burial permit from local hospital/police officer to next of kin. (For detail of specific processes of issuance of relevant documents, please refer to FAQ section – Question 6).

Body should be arrived at SMC within 8 hours of death for deep freezing process, to be ready for surgical simulation workshop in the near future.