Upon the death of an individual, the body is washed and prepared for burial by an older man or woman, usually a close relative of the deceased. A few male relatives then build a coffin and cross our of wood, if this has not been done already (some people build the coffins for their parents when they see that their parents have few years left to live). In the meantime, a dinner is prepared and relatives and friends are summoned to the house of the deceased for evening services there. There is then a processional with the coffin to the cemetery, where more prayers are said as the coffin is lowered into the ground. Everyone present has to pitch some dirt over the grave, with a special cloth being placed by a "podruchnik," while the nastayatyel of the deceased person's church presides over the services. The people then return to the home of the dead person for a dinner, at the end of which small presents are given by a relative of the deceased to each person present at the funeral. In exchange for this, each person is bound to pray for the deceased. Nine days after the funeral, another holy dinner is given if the family can afford it, and another is supposed to be prepared on the fortieth day and one year after the death. Some families may posthumously observe the name-day or day of death of the individual each year subsequent to her death. Although the nastayatyel cannot administer Holy Communion to individuals because he is not an ordanined priest, the Old Believers do apparently maintain among the parishes a supply of holy water which is used for the last rites, so that a person may receive the Holy Mystery before death. This water is said to have been blessed and sanctified by a pre-Nikonian priest during the early days of the Schism, and has been handed down since then. It is diluted each time it is used, with the idea being that at least some of it will be sacred no matter how many times it has to be used. Both the Harbintsi and Sinziantsi were apparently at one time groups which had their own priests after the Schism, but abandoned the priesthood under persecutions from Nicholas I when they were unable to find new priests to replace those who died of old age. Thus, over the years they gradually became like the priestless groups.