Is it possible? What is the reason, if so? I mean, death has already occured, hasn't it?
2006-12-18 22:42:49 · 12 answers · asked by India's cool! 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
It is jsut a myth, nut it can appear as though they are growing, basically, after death your flesh dries out and shrinks, so, your finger nail is still the same length, just the finger it was on has gotten smaller.
2006-12-18 22:53:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this might properly be a rumor that has lasted greater effective than a century. The nails and hair do no longer strengthen after a guy or woman has died. extremely, the floor tightens up, pulling heavily against a guy or woman's corpse, making subsequently seem as though the hair, nails, or perhaps chest has grown. the floor tightens up from the end results of embalming, that's the place maximum blood, yet no longer all is extracted from the physique and a preservative is located into the physique. This chemical commonplace as formaldehyde is used to maintain all actual gases, organs, and different platforms of the internal human gadget perserved in easy terms somewhat longer, a great style of the time between 3 to 5 months.
2016-12-15 04:08:25 · answer #2 · answered by kull 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The body shrinks slightly after death giving the appearance of growth from the nails and possibly the hair too. I may be wrong but I guess i am right!
2006-12-18 22:54:55 · answer #3 · answered by litatata 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do not.
After a person dies, their skin dries and retracts. This makes the hair and nails APPEAR to be continuing to grow but they are not.
2006-12-18 22:52:16 · answer #4 · answered by S H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many skeltons have you seen with long hair and fingernails?
Once the body stops working, it stops working. The only thing that stays alive and continues to eat you up is a cancerous tumour unfortunately.
2006-12-18 23:13:11 · answer #5 · answered by little_jo_uk 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i heard somewhere they keep growing for up to 5 days after death
2006-12-18 22:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope.. everything stops working after death..
2006-12-18 22:48:31 · answer #7 · answered by Mommadog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard they do. Why not go dig up a corpse for yourself and find out?
2006-12-18 22:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by Justa_Honay_Guy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes they do, but not forever.... it stops eventually.... Creepy but true.
2006-12-18 22:52:55 · answer #9 · answered by She Said 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yup. they still do, i read that in an article in a magazine.
2006-12-18 22:45:26 · answer #10 · answered by kireiicutie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋