The epidermis is made up of dead skin cells. The cells are constantly falling off of the body, but are replaced by new cells that were earlier created in the dermis.
It is the stratum corneum that contains dead or mostly dead cells. These dead cells are filled with keratin fibers.
Stratum corneum
Stratum Granulosum
stratum corneum
It is called the epidermis
the top one
Epidermis
A layer of new cells is always better than a layer of old and dead cells. If your skin is dead then it wont be protecting you, instead it will spread the necrosis to your inside body parts and ultimately you'll either scar a lot or die. Nothing dead is every helpful to the body (hence why dead cells are always "recycled" and then flushed out of the body).
the top layer; the epidermis
The outermost
S. corneum - all or mostly dead cells cells are dead, flat, "bags" of keratin
papillary layer
The dermis is the layer of skin that contains only living cells. The epidermis contains both living and dead cells.
Skin cells on the surface are dead and therefore do not contain any functional organelles. The hypodermal layer (the layer beneath the visible skin) has active cells and contains ribosomes.
stratum corneum
Your skin shreds everyday so you may have layers of dead skin forming on the surface of your skin. So the answer would be dead skin
Epidermis
No, the epidermis is made up of mostly dead cells
The upper layer of skin i.e. Epidermis is composed of dead Keratinized epithelium cells.
The epidermis is the top and most superficial skin layer in the body and is made of dead skins cells. You will shed these dead skin cells and they will fall., so you don't have a continuously growing layer of dead skin.
A layer of new cells is always better than a layer of old and dead cells. If your skin is dead then it wont be protecting you, instead it will spread the necrosis to your inside body parts and ultimately you'll either scar a lot or die. Nothing dead is every helpful to the body (hence why dead cells are always "recycled" and then flushed out of the body).
Epidermis
the top layer; the epidermis
No the outer layer of the skin is not made of living cells. it is made of dead cells.