2006-10-16 12:46:49 · 15 answers · asked by florcha 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
They don't. That is a myth. What happens is as your body decomposes it loses water and your skin shrinks, which gives hair and nails the appearance of growing.
2006-10-16 12:48:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no. Hair and fingernails are not incredibly becoming. ineffective is ineffective. the only issues becoming once you're ineffective are worms, micro organism, and flora. what's happening, although, is that the floor around the hair and fingernails will desiccate (i.e., lose water) and thereby shrink. whilst the floor shrinks, it retracts, making hair and fingernails look longer, as though that they had grown. think of of it this way: a fifty foot tree grows in ten ft of swamp water. The seen component to the tree is 40' tall. some months later, a drought reasons the water point to drop 5 ft. Now the seen component to the tree is 40 5' tall. Did the tree advance in a drought? No, yet you will locate why human beings could think of it did. desire that helps, and endure in strategies, do no longer attempt this at domicile!
2016-10-19 12:43:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't keep growing when you die. They appear longer because your tissue is decomposing away from your nails and hair exposing the hair and nails underneath the surface.
2006-10-16 12:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by athenajade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't !! Your skin shrivals up. I know this because I studied to be a Funeral Director and Embalmed over 300 people. It's an optical illusion that our hair and nails grow after we die. But that's not the case at all.
2006-10-16 12:49:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you die, your body dehydrates and the skin retracts, giving the appearance of the hair and nails growing, but in actuality, they do not.
2006-10-16 12:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't, this is a myth; it often LOOKS like the nails or hair have grown, however, because a dead body soon begins to lose water, so the skin shrivels back on the scalp and fingers.
2006-10-16 12:49:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive never heard of that before. Hmmm??? Is it really true?
Then why dont we find skeletons with a head full of hair and long nails? Maybe this is true, I just never knew...
Thanks for the interesting tip,Learned something new (laugh)
2006-10-16 12:51:44 · answer #7 · answered by Such A Chicka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in order to grow, hair and nails need a blood supply. No heartbeat, no blood supply--no more growing!
2006-10-16 14:19:45 · answer #8 · answered by draws_with_crayons 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, your skin recedes so it looks like the nails are longer ,but their not. When you die so does everything else.
2006-10-16 12:55:01 · answer #9 · answered by Corina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they don't. it only appears this way cuz the dead perosn's skin is beginning to shrivel up so moreof the nail or hair show up
2006-10-16 12:50:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋