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Diener

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The word Diener is German for servant.[1][2] In English, it is generally used to describe the person, in the morgue, responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse (though, at some institutions dieners perform the entire dissection at autopsy). It is derived from the German word Leichendiener, which literally means corpse servant.

Dieners are also referred to as morgue attendants, autopsy technicians and other titles that can vary from region to region.

In the American Moravian Church. German: Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, the men and particularly the women, who serve in various church services, like the Lovefeast, are called "Dieners", from the German title for their office, Saaldiener or "chapel servant".

[edit] Trivia

Season 5, Episode 14 of Homicide: Life on the Street, in which a morgue attendant is suspected of stealing personal items from the bodies of murder victims, is titled "Diener." The diener is the assistant to the pathologist

Martha Serpas's poem "The Diener" uses the word in all these ways.

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