do humans hair and nails continue to grow after death? if so how long for?

Answer 1

I heard something like that too
but i found that on a website called Mr flint classroom
You may have heard that a person's hair and nails continue to grow after they die. This is actually just an illusion. As the body begins to dehydrate and shrivel, the nails extend further beyond the tip of the fingers. Similarly, the skin of the face shrinks, and this makes the hair appear longer. None of the physiological processes which cause cells to grow can continue more than briefly after death, because without the circulation of blood, the nutrients are not available for the necessary metabolism.

Answer 2

No, the skin shrinks and withdraws as water is removed from the body making it appear that the nails grow. Hair, like nails are dead and will not continue to grow.

It only appears that they do from the body's dehydration.

Answer 3

In science class they said no to produce nail and hail has to have a blood supply. The skin and blood and flesh draw up and more shows and so it appears to be growing. But actually it was in the folicle at the time of death.

Answer 4

I dont think so because Nothing is feeding your body and there's no activity going on in your body to make you hair grow and nails.

Answer 5

I just heard this on the learning channel (or some similar educational program)
No they don't. What happens is your skin receeds and shrinks as it loses moisture - making at appear that your nails and hair have grown. Both are dead cels - so it would follow that if you are dead, the body would no longer produce waste.

Answer 6

They don't technically continue to grow. I know nails appear to keep growing because the skin at the base of the nail recedes as the body decomposes.

Answer 7

they appear to grow, however, it is just rigor mortis setting in.
As the body drys, the skin retracts around your nail beds and scalp which gives the illusion of growth. Once the body ceases to live (breathe, metabolize, pump, excrete, etc..) it cannot generate any new tissue or protein. The nails and hair actually
decay much slower than tissue, yet faster than bone.

Answer 8

well after the human death the other parts of the body in this case hair and nails appear to be dead to just ask urself this question "wen i pull or cut hair and nails off does it grow anymore?" well of course not wen it come off the object is not alive anymore so if u r dead than it appears that neither is the hair and nails bc that is apart of u

Answer 9

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Answer 10

No they don't.

They seem to be, but that is because the skin shrinks a little as it dries out, and the nail and hair poke out more as a consequence.