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Donating bodies to science: Following the journey of the 'silent mentors'

They have died. But their bodies remain intact for up to three more years in the service of science. Over the course of almost a year, Sunday Times correspondent Calvin Yang and photojournalists Kua Chee Siong and Mark Cheong documented the journey of these medical cadavers.

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Calvin Yang, Kua Chee Siong, Mark Cheong

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The four students bowed their heads before a portrait of a teacher they had never met in life.
Next to them stood his grieving widow, to whom he had been wed for 50 years, and the couple's children and grandchildren.
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