‘World’s dirtiest man’ who died after first bath in 60 years loved porcupine meat

NEW DELHI,OCT 26: Amou Haji, popularly known as the world’s dirtiest man, died at the age of 94, a few months after his first wash. The Iranian national did not take a shower for more than half a century as he believed staying dirty kept him alive for so long.

Haji lived in an open brick hut and had faced some “emotional setbacks in his youth” that made him live in isolation. He died on Sunday in the village of Dejgah. Here’s his life in five points.

Haji, covered in soot, lived in a small hut that often resembled a grave in the Iranian desert close to Dejgah village. Haji experienced “emotional setbacks in his youth,” and he decided to stay away from water and soap for over 60 years.

According to the Tehran Times, Haji would eat porcupine meat, smoke cigarettes and pipes filled with animal excrement, and believed cleanliness would make him ill. He smoked multiple cigarettes at once, all of which were gifted by villagers.

3) His diet consisted of rotten meat and unsanitary water drunk from an old oil can, according to the Iranian news agency, IRNA.

4) Attempts to bathe him or provide him with clean water made him sad. But villagers persuaded Haji to take a bath a few months ago, IRNA reported.

5) According to IRNA, Amou Haji, who had stayed away from water, became ill shortly afterwards and died at the age of 94 on Sunday.

-The India Today