2006-10-21 05:44:47 · 18 answers · asked by Moo 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I tdoesn't. it's the skin shrinking back, giving the effect of hair and nails growing after death.
2006-10-21 05:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't see how it can keep growing at all - your hair is basically dead, it's the roots that grow and make it longer. I did remember reading however that in the waxworks museum they had to keep cutting Hitler's hair as it kept growing - surely this must be an urban myth?
2006-10-21 06:14:59 · answer #2 · answered by Ally 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hair is already dead; it's a mass of dead cells pushed out by the (living) follicle. And the moment a person dies, *everything* shuts down. You need to see a few episodes of the first series of CSI. Or talk to a coroner or funeral director--they'll tell you. Nothing continues to grow after death.
2006-10-21 06:11:54 · answer #3 · answered by anna 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. After death there is some contraction of the skin on the scalp which gives the impression of hair growing, but really it's the scalp shrinking
2006-10-21 05:53:53 · answer #4 · answered by Ian M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all a rumour! Yes, it looks like hair continues to grow after death, but it just looks like it because skins retracts as it gets more dehydrated. It's the same for fingernails...
2006-10-21 05:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by emmorticia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-24 21:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by papke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correct, it does not continue growing. Because your skins and tissues shrink from dehydration, your hair only appears to grow. Same with nails.
2006-10-21 05:47:16 · answer #7 · answered by Jenyfer C 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As sorry as some folks are, I don't even think theri DNA should be in the Earth. Pull out your hair and wax your sorryass liberal body if this applies!
2006-10-21 05:47:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you die of Natural Causes your hair has probably font have any hair.
2006-10-21 05:52:29 · answer #9 · answered by jimmyc1163 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three days apparently, same for nails, although I always thought it was longer than that until I heard differently recently.
2006-10-21 05:52:20 · answer #10 · answered by Alicat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋