NG Kwan-lun (Pasu) has a particularly uncommon profession, he is an embalmer.
In Chinese society, coming across the deceased and handling bodies are traditional taboos after all. Therefore, such profession of his is indeed beyond the understanding of ordinary people, which has inevitably drawn misunderstanding and uncanny attention. However, Pasu stands aloof because he has his own mindset in this regard.
Pasu is currently the Manager of the Dissecting Room at the Faculty of Medicine at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The bodies handled by him and his team every day are mainly provided to medical students for dissection, education and research purposes. For over ten years, Pasu has treated more than a thousand bodies without any sense of fear because he considers “the process of handling bodies an inward cultivation which allows me to understand death better and enrich my way to perceive life.”
Although the mainstream voice of society reckons that Chinese must keep the bodies of the deceased intact; and death should be a taboo subject, Pasu raises an adventurous idea - "Silent Teacher" Body Donation Programme. Since 2011, he has been dedicating to implement this programme at CUHK by which he delivers the message of body donation to different sectors of society with novel and exceptional methods.
Pasu’s concern for death stemmed from his good friend’s suicide, pushing him to contemplate life and death again - “From death, life is seen”. Pasu and his like-minded wife Winnie surmount traditional taboos step by step and endeavour to implement life and death education, with a view to turning marginal ideas about death into mainstream gradually, drawing more people to rethink the meaning of life and death.
伍桂麟（Pasu）的工作非常冷門，他是一位遺體防腐師。
在中國人社會，接觸死人、處理遺體始終是傳統禁忌；他這份工作的確是非常人所能理解，故難免招來誤解及奇異目光，不過Pasu不以為然，他有自己一套想法。
現任中文大學醫學院解剖室經理的Pasu，每天跟團隊所處理的遺體，主要是為醫科學生作解剖、教學及研究用途。過去十多年，Pasu 曾處理過千具遺體，當中沒有太大恐懼，他認為：「處理遺體的過程就像一種修行。我會對死亡多一份了解，對生命多一種領悟。」
當社會主流聲音認為中國人不可以死無全屍、避忌提及死亡的時候，Pasu卻提出一個大膽構思－「無言老師」遺體捐贈計劃；自2011年至今，他致力在中大推行這計劃，以新穎破格的手法，把遺體捐贈訊息帶到社會各階層。
Pasu對死亡的關注，源自一位好朋友自殺的經歷，令他再一次思考生死大問。「從死看生」，Pasu與志同道合的太太Winnie一步一步突破傳統禁忌，努力推行生死教育，希望能把對死亡的邊緣看法，慢慢推向主流，讓更多人重新思考我們的生前死後。
