do your hair and fingernails still grow when you are dead??

Answer 1

It is not true that fingernails, toenails, or hair continue to grow
after death. Nails and hair may appear to be longer because of the
desiccation of the surrounding flesh, but actual growth has not
occurred.

"We dehydrate after dying. Our flesh dries and, in so doing, pulls
away from nails and hair. Thus, though the nail on our big toe, for
example, remains the same length as before, the toe it is seated upon
shrinks. Because we are accustomed to nails and hair growing, not
hands, feet, and heads shrinking, we perceive this change as an
increase in one rather than a decline in the other.

To quote the respected forensic anthropologist William R. Maples:
It is a myth that fingernails and hair continue to grow after death.
What really happens is that the skin may retract around them, making
the hair and nails prickle up and jut out more prominently. Erich
Maria Remarque, in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front, imagines
a dead friend's nails growing in weird, subterranean corkscrews after
his burial. It is a powerful, disturbing image, but it is pure
moonshine. No such thing occurs."

Answer 2

No, this is a myth.

"It is a myth that nails and hair will continue growing for several days after death. The appearance of growth is actually caused by the retraction of skin as the surrounding tissue dehydrates (desiccation), making nails and hair more prominent. "

Answer 3

Actually what happens is that your skin dries out, which causes it to shrivel up, and this makes your hair and fingernails appear longer. They don't actually grow though.

Answer 4

Yes, a body dug up a month after being buried will show hair and nail growth.

Answer 5

no as the skin dries out and shrinks back more hair and nails show.
when you are dead you are dead, especially after they replace your blood with embalming fluid, formaldehyde mix.

Answer 6

yuck..