2007-08-27 12:15:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
No. It may seem that they grow, but that is not the case. What is happening is that when you die, you dry out. So the nails stay the same length, but the skin and flesh around it start to shrivel, so the nails seem to grow.
2007-08-27 12:20:05 · answer #1 · answered by practical thinking 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, your body continues to grow hair and nails after you die up to 2 weeks.
2007-08-27 12:21:09 · answer #2 · answered by g8rfan4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Your hair and nails don't grow after you die. The skin around the nails, and the skin on your head shrivels up, and it sometimes seem like their getting longer, but really, the skin is getting smaller.
After you die, all the cells in your body die as well. The cells in your body wont mulitply if they don't have support. So nothing can get bigger, or longer.
2007-08-27 12:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the skin around them tightens up causing it to look like the hair and nails continued to grow.
2007-08-27 12:20:46 · answer #4 · answered by Shark Bait 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but only for a small amount of time (by the time you get to the morgue it's probably done growing), after that the skin just tightens to make it seem longer
2007-08-27 12:20:47 · answer #5 · answered by Lola 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it only looks like it. Your skin shrinks after you die, so your hair and nails look like they still gain some length after you die.
2007-08-27 12:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by absoluteabstrakt@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it just looks like they are growing because your skin starts to recede making your hair and nails look longer.
2007-08-27 12:20:29 · answer #7 · answered by C M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, only for a while, there's leftover blood and little activity happening once you passed away. Once it stops, the growth of hair and nails stops, and the skin and hair starts to fall off.
2007-08-27 12:23:54 · answer #8 · answered by Red Panda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no,they do not,our body shrinks in a decomposing state which makes the nails and hair appear to have grown.our body nees blood to grow things and their just isnt eny flowing blood to grow eny thing.
2007-08-27 12:22:08 · answer #9 · answered by alcaholicdemon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course, after I died my nails, and hair growewd a hole lot!
2007-08-27 12:23:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋