when you die?
2006-11-19 06:24:13 · 7 answers · asked by ........ 3 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Other - Skin & Body
indeed, already been answered but they do not grow.
Hair and nails are made up of the same thing, Keratin. Normal skin cells have a lot of moisture in them to give them their colour and stretchy qualities. After you die the ,moisture begins to dry up without circulating blood or water intake to keep the moisture. As such they shrink, getting smaller. Because there is far less moisture in Keratin and it is a stronger substance it keeps it's appearance for much longer. And since Keratin extends beneath the skin in life it starts to show itself as being longer than you thought it was after death.
2006-11-19 06:29:28 · answer #1 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't. The part of our hair and nails that we see is already dead. The follicle that produces hair and nails dies when the person dies. This idea of something continuing to grow after the body is dead is the oldest old-wives'-tale there is.
2006-11-19 14:29:09 · answer #2 · answered by anna 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't.
The underlying tissue shrinks, giving the appearance of growth.
2006-11-19 14:26:51 · answer #3 · answered by mmd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they don't just a myth..
skin shrink...gives that myth hair and nails grow.
2006-11-19 14:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by cork 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they dont, ur skin shrivels creating the illusion of growth
2006-11-19 14:27:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dont grow you fool!
2006-11-19 14:27:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they are dead cells
2006-11-19 14:26:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋