A man branded the "dirtiest in the world" after not washing for decades has died aged 94, according to Iranian state media.
Amou Haji shunned the shower for more than half a century, fearing that to do so would make him sick.
Fed-up villagers recently took him to a bathroom to wash, a local official claimed.
The man died just months later. Iranian state news agency IRNA confirmed he passed away on Sunday in the village of Dejgah in the south of the country.
In a documentary about his bizarre life, Mr Haji said he chose to become dirty after suffering emotional problems as a young man. He then became isolated.
As well as his aversion to cleanliness, he also feared fresh food and drink, thinking it too would make him unwell.
Instead, his favourite food was rotting porcupine and he opted to only drink water from an oil can lined with rust.
Mr Haji spent most of his life in the same village, which is in the southern province of Fars, where locals built him an open shack to live in.
They constructed the abode after seeing him sleeping in a hole in the ground.
He also preferred to smoke animal faeces from an old pipe rather than normal tobacco.
His life was immortalised in a short documentary film called "The Strange Life of Amou Haji" in 2013.
If Mr Haji's claims of 60 years without a wash is true, it would make him the world's dirtiest man.
An Indian man called Kailash Singh, 67, claimed to have not showered for 39 years, trailing Mr Haji by 21 years.
