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i believe nails continue to grow because even though your "Dead" as in your heart is not supplying oxygen to the brain, cells continue to do work for a short period of time, thus causing hair and nails to grow for a short ammount of time

fingernails never grow after death...its your body's skin that shrink and it seems that the nails are growing...

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