What is a gravedigger?

What is a gravedigger? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person employed to dig graves.
  2. A necrophore, or burying beetle.
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This gravedigger also understands that once a person is dead, we can't do any good or harm to that person by fiddling with their corpse.
The unfortunate woman stood accused of the murder of the workhouse gravedigger and pleaded her innocence to the last.
The gravedigger, alarmed at what Samuel asked him, at first refused his request.
On the other hand, the gravedigger knows that the family of the deceased is still alive.
Once in the church, our gravedigger afflicted with Down's Syndrom had looked in vain for Jesus really present in the Eucharist.
He also admits that the job of the gravedigger is a very sensitive position because, as he says himself, everyone is famous in their own right.

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