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World’s dirtiest man dies
A man nicknamed the “world’s dirtiest man” for not taking a shower for more than half a century is dead. The Iranian hermit died at the healthy age of 94 years, Irna news agency reported on Tuesday.
“Amou Haji”, an endearing nickname for an elderly person, died on Sunday in the village of Dejgah in the southern province of Fars.
Haji, who did not take a bath for more than half a century and was single, had avoided showering over fears of “getting sick”, the agency quoted a local official as saying.
The old man, covered in soot and living in a cinder-block shack, was reported by local media not to have bathed with water or soap in more than 60 years.
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In 2014, the Tehran Times reported that Haji would eat roadkill, smoke a pipe filled with animal excrement, and believed that cleanliness would make him ill.
Apart from not being a fan of water, Haji, however, loved smoking and photos capturing him smoking multiple cigarettes at once at splashed online.
Villagers who knew him said he had experienced “emotional setbacks in his youth” that led him to refuse to wash.
A few months ago, however, villagers persuaded him to take a shower for the first time in decades, Irna reported.
With “Amou Haji” now dead, the title of the “World’s dirtiest man” the unofficial record now goes to an Indian man who also had not bathed for much of his life.
In 2009 the Hindustan Times reported that Kailash “Kalau” Singh, from a village outside the holy city of Varanasi, had not washed for more than 30 years in an attempt to help end “all the problems confronting the nation”.
He would reject water in favour of what he called a “fire bath”
Source> the guardian
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