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Is it true that when you die your hair and nails continue to grow?
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∙ 14y ago
When you die your hair and nails do not continue to grow.
People probably got that impression because the body 'shrivels up' a little after a while which makes the nails and hair appear bigger by comparison.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoNot by any important amount.
To grow, the body needs to eat, breathe, take up and distribute nutrition. And dead bodies don't do any of that.
Now, teeth in particular may well look longer when the gums dry up and pull back, and a little of the same can happen to hair, but that's about it.
(if you're really specific, not all cells in the body die exactly at the same moment, so it's possible that the hair sacs might continue working for a little while. But not enough to make any measureable difference outside the cellular level.)
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∙ 14y agoYour fingernails continue to grow for about a week after you are dead.
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∙ 13y agoThey don't really. It just looks that way due to the shrinking of the surrounding tissue. They did a bit perhaps long ago when some cultures did not embalm their dead.
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∙ 13y agoNo because when you die, all your cells in your bodie just die which means nothing can grow.
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