Do Hair And Fingernails Grow After Death?
[x] Tags: Health Myth, Hair, Fingernails, Death, Does Your Hair And Nails Grow After You Die, Nails And Hair Grow After Death, Post Mortem, Growth Post Mortem, Does Your Hair Grow When You Die, After Death, Death Facts [x] Transcript: Should we include with our organ-donor cards, haircut and manicure instructions to the mortician? Factoids with creep factor are ALWAYS fun to repeat, especially around a campfire, but this often repeated statement is NOT what it seems. In the body, after death, the tissue around the hair shafts and nail folds dries out and shrinks away, giving the IMPRESSION of growth. This process is otherwise known as dehydration. This retraction of the skin around the hair and nails makes nails and hair look longer. But basically, it’s an optical illusion. Dead is dead. The only things growing after you’re dead are worms, bacteria, and flowers—if your family was fond of you. Actual hair and nail growth requires a complex set of regulated hormones to occur. This is goo
