2007-01-25 05:54:42 · 16 answers · asked by M H nock nock 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
Hair and fingernails aren't actually growing. Dead is dead. The only things growing after you're dead are worms, bacteria, and flowers. What is happening, however, is that the skin around the hair and fingernails will desiccate and thereby shrink. When the skin shrinks, it retracts, making hair and fingernails look longer, as if they'd grown.
Think of it this way: a fifty foot tree grows in ten feet of swamp water. The visible part of the tree is 40' tall. A few months later, a drought causes the water level to drop five feet. Now the visible part of the tree is 45' tall. Did the tree grow in a drought? No, but you can see why people would think it did.
Hope that helps!!!!
2007-01-25 06:04:41 · answer #1 · answered by cscmonkeefan 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
is was on a docomentary the other day that is isnt possible 4 hair 2 grow while 1 is dead because the roots come 2 surface when 1 is dead and it looks as though as if it is growing
2007-01-25 08:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by miss perfect 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt think it did grow. You'd be pickled with preservatives but the hair is already dead, and the skin on the head shrinks back as you start to dry out and rot. Makes it look longer - but it isnt!
2007-01-25 21:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by confused 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't grow at all. The hair may appear to have grown, but this is a result of the skin, and therefore the scalp, dessicating. Lack of moisture in the skin causes the hair to seem longer than before death.
2007-01-25 06:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe it grows for a short time after you are dead which is sth to do with the cells,I don't think it grows long
2007-01-25 06:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by edd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its one of those questions that it depends on who you talk to - I'd always heard that it grew after you were dead, something to do with parts of the body can be kept functioning mechanically even after death but I checked on wikipedia where I imagine most people are getting their info from because they agree word for word with the answers above
2007-01-25 07:03:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't grow after you are dead
2007-01-25 06:00:19 · answer #7 · answered by Reg Tedious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it dosnt the skin titens and gis the elution of growing hair
2007-01-26 13:08:49 · answer #8 · answered by Michael D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the hair hasn't been told that you're dead.
Ta.
2007-01-25 08:55:02 · answer #9 · answered by chopchubes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
technically your hair is dead anyway. summin to do with the cells.
2007-01-25 05:59:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋