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In Iraq, the gravedigger carries out the ritual of washing corpses in the Islamic way and the tradition of the community before burying them, He washes the body with fresh water on a concrete high, read some Koranic verses or supplications, closes the dead’s holes with clean cotton and wraps the body with a white cloth before placing it in a wooden coffin and sending it for burial. This profession is often genetic, learned by children from parents. The gravedigger is a pariah, and some consider it bad omen. Some families may not marry their daughters to a person who performs this profession that is indispensable in every society. A gravedigger is one of the important witnesses to death and ways of crimes that occur in the country.

 

 

This performance is going to be his story.