When your dead, do your finger nails and hair still grow?!
Question: I know for a fact that it does NOT. When you die the water slowly leaves the cells in your skin and body, which results in the skin being pulled back and shrinking, giving the appearance of growing nails and hair.
Answers: I know for a fact that it does NOT. When you die the water slowly leaves the cells in your skin and body, which results in the skin being pulled back and shrinking, giving the appearance of growing nails and hair.
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yes briefly because they are made of dead kerotine cells!
No, when you are dead everything else is dead so the cells that grow your hair and fingernails die therefor stopping your hair and fingernails from growing.
Your hair and fingernails are already dead as they grow out. Why do you think it does hurt to cut them?
Anyway, when we die, nothing else at all continues to grow, Nothing in your body is functioning to make it grow, And when you are embalmed, they remove everything and fill you with formaldehyde so your body will not decay before they can bury you.
For a little bit the calls still go through the cell cycle. When the body becomes stiff then the cells stop reproducing.
No, The skin starts to shrivel away from the hair & nails, which is part of the decomposing process, but it appears like the hair & nails have continued to grow, but they too are dead.
No they do not..... what happens is that the moisture leaves your skin and the skin retracts in dehydration making the nails appear to have grown. Hair is the same....
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