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In Sri Lanka, Theravada Buddhist principles of\n                    <jats:italic>dana<\/jats:italic>\n                    (generosity) and\n                    <jats:italic>karuna<\/jats:italic>\n                    (compassion) underpin a well\u2010established culture of body donation. The formal memorial ceremonies have served as the conventional expression of institutional gratitude to body donors. The Faculty of Medicine (FOM) at Wayamba University of Sri Lanka (WUSL), however, faced successive and compounding adversities following its inaugural student intake in 2018\u2014including the Easter Sunday terrorist attack (2019), the COVID\u201019 pandemic (2020\u20132022), and a national economic crisis (2022\u20132023)\u2014that rendered formal ceremonial commemoration logistically and practically unfeasible. In response, the corresponding author implemented an alternative commemorative practice in which medical students authored gratitude notes, poems, and artistic tributes addressed to body donors. This discursive article describes that initiative, situates it within the pluralistic society of Sri Lanka, and examines its implications for humanistic medical education. Drawing on the established literature on reflective writing, professional identity formation, and inclusive commemorative practice, student\u2010authored expressions of gratitude are proposed as a pedagogically meaningful, complementary, and mutually reinforcing practice alongside formal ceremony. 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