[VipInoLo]

Well years ago when I was with a friend who was a medical student, at his University, he showed me around, he took me into this room, well in this room were many glass containers filled with preserving fluid and parts of people inside, like a dissected head, they were labeled with a name and a date when the specimens were placed in the container, well some were around 20 years old and he told me when they reach a certain age, they give the specimens a ceremony and they get cremated.

[floadaVonfoli]

When you are using the word of "aajaan yai"

"aajaan yai" ÍÒ¨ÒÃÂìãË*è has got 2 meaning :

1. A principal teacher ( not easy, need experiences)
2. A donate body after death for medical research and education such as anatomy class( no need experience at all).

P.S.
1.I can not be a pricipal teacher.
2.I would like to donate my body. BTW I am not in hurry!

Correct ÍÒ¨ÒÃÂìãË*è professor, instructor, mentor, lecturer, cadaver

That's why the body once in the medical institute and in the Anatomy rooms is referred to by the students as their 'Aajaan Yai' because by allowing the students to dissect the body (over a period of nearly a year) the body is still providing them with teaching, instruction and even a form of mentoring even although life is not present.

[floadaVonfoli]

How to become an ‘Aajaan Yai’ (Principal teacher)

My wife’s aunt died a couple of weeks back. Well into her 80's, she had lived a long and full life, and it puzzled me when my wife and several other relatives told me she was now going to be an ‘Aajaan Yai’
ÍÒ¨ÒÃÂìãË*è 'principal teacher'
I was well aware that Auntie had donated her body to the Siriraat Hospital after her death, but I never thought much about it until she died. Now my wife tells me that she too wants to become an ‘Aajaan Yai’ when she eventually dies. It works like this.
A person can formally sign papers instructing their family that after death the deceased person’s body has been donated to a suitable educational institute, eg Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine, Siriraat Hospital etc etc. Donor accepting institutes are all over the Kingdom eg Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai etc. The chosen institute has a registration office where the arrangements can be made by the donor. A card is issued that the donor carries with him/her in case of accidental death. Once death occurs the normal Buddhist family temple mourning ceremonies are carried out, the chanting of prayers over several nights etc etc, but instead of cremating the body, a time is set, usually in the morning, where the monks will again chant final prayers.
Shortly after this, the hospital/university van arrives, the driver and his assistant take care of the paperwork and then relatives and friends lift the coffin from the bier and place it into the van. Flower petals and coins are then strewn over the coffin into the back of the van. Last farewells are called out to Auntie and the van slowly makes its way out of the temple grounds. Auntie is on her way to being an Aajaan Yai. The idea in Thai culture is that even after death a person can become a valuable teacher by allowing his/her body to be used as an anatomical teaching aid to help medical students become doctors, and so whilst ever the person’s body is in the dissecting rooms it is treated with great respect by the students who now refer to it as their Aajaan Yai. A group of students are allocated a body and are required to treat it with the utmost respect. Waiing the Aajaan Yai before the day's lessons start and again after the lessons end, when the body is wrapped in cloth and a garland placed on it.

There are lengthy treatment processes before the body ever gets to the dissecting rooms and the whole subject of becoming an Aajaan Yai is covered in fascinating detail from start to the finish, when the body is finally returned to it's family, also with ceremony involved, in a sometimes mildly graphic VCD produced by the Kob Nok Kala ¡º¹Í¡¡ÐÅÒ TV program.
Before I was aware of what is involved I wasn’t all that happy about my wife’s wish to donate her body but after she bought the CD for me to watch, I feel happier about it, and I can understand why it would appeal to some people.

[TOD4wDTQ]

Thanks khun Surawut,

I am an organ donor in my country but it have never occurred to me to sign up in Thailand, in case I have a fatal accident. I will examine the possibility for a foreigner next time I am in the kingdom

[brraverishhh]

When you are using the word of "aajaan yai"

"aajaan yai" ÍÒ¨ÒÃÂìãË*è has got 2 meaning :

1. A principal teacher ( not easy, need experiences)
2. A donate body after death for medical research and education such as anatomy class( no need experience at all).

P.S.
1.I can not be a pricipal teacher.
2.I would like to donate my body. BTW I am not in hurry!

[jimmy28]

Well years ago when I was with a friend who was a medical student, at his University, he showed me around, he took me into this room, well in this room were many glass containers filled with preserving fluid and parts of people inside, like a dissected head, they were labeled with a name and a date when the specimens were placed in the container, well some were around 20 years old and he told me when they reach a certain age, they give the specimens a ceremony and they get cremated.

Paul are you sure you were not watching that film Alien ??