Is it true after you die your hair and nails continue to grow and if so how?

since hair and nails are just dead cells, they will keep growing, to a point.Is it true after you die your hair and nails continue to grow and if so how?
No it is not true.. After death the circulation of blood stops , and therefore there is no feeding to the hair and nails and they die also.Is it true after you die your hair and nails continue to grow and if so how?
Just because vital organs stop functioning (death) doesn't mean that all cellular activity will suddently cease. Tissues will continue to automatically do their job until the stop receiving the necessary fuel %26amp; materials and begin to break down.
They don't actually grow the skin around them thins making it look like they grew.
Actually, no. The skin shrivels and recedes making it appear as if the aforementioned articles are continuing to grow.
STRANGE BUT TRUE . I CANN'T HELP YOU WITH HOW OR WHY.
YES it is true. Not infinitely, but it takes longer than you think for all your bodies functions to shut down completely. Nails are basically just calcium and need little or no oxygen so they will continue to grow for awhile after your body is dead. Same with hair.
Do you honestly expect someone who is alive to have this info.


We have probably heard it but as for knowing if it's true, you will have to wait until someone comes back from the dead to tell you that.
No. The hair and nails need a continuous supply of nutrients to keep growing. Since the blood circulation in the body has stopped, no nurients are supplied.





When a person dies, the soft tissues begin to dessicate (dry out) and as they do the skin shrinks and pulls away from the root of the hair and nails making them appear longer.
No, they do not.





When you die, your body dries out, causing your skin to shrivel and shrink. One of the places where this is most noticeable is on the hands. The fact that the cuticles and skin on the finger tips shrinks makes it appear like you fingernails have continued to grow, when they actually have not.





The same thing happens on your scalp. Your scalp tissue loses all its moisture, which makes your hair appear longer.





The stories of hair and nails continuing to grow after death are just old wives tales from what people observed in the past. They didn't fully understand the physical changes that happen after death, so they assumed stuff was still growing when it was not.
There is a story about St.Xaviour's body at Goa (India),that the dead body's nails and hair has been growing... I don't belive it. Try asking this question at www.howstuffworks.com
um no?
yes its true but they dont grow forever. they grow a couple days after you die and it eventually stops
It only seems that way because your skin dries up.
No, the skin shrinks as it dries making it appear as if the hair and nails are getting longer.
I don't know how they still grow, but they do!
No that is a nyth
This is not true. They just do not decompose as quickly. Some hair/nails is still under your skin, so when your skin is gone, they look longer.





PS that would be creepy if it did grow, wouldnt it?
i don't think so because there is no more life in the dead no more energy to make it grow.


and if they keep growing you would see nails from the grounds