Will Your Fingernails and Hair Keep Growing After Death?

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Will Your Fingernails and Hair Keep Growing After Death?
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Among the living, fingernail growth averages about a 10th of a millimeter per day, with toenails growing about a half to a third slower.

many things continue to liveCreepy facts have their appeal, chief among them a morbid-fascination factor. Although the true details of what happens to bodies after death is not intelligence suitable for the even mildly squeamish , we nonetheless delight in sharing what we believe are priceless tidbits of knowledge on this subject.

The sorry fact of the matter is that 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— we perceive this change as an increase in one rather than a decline in the other.It is a myth that fingernails and hair continue to grow after death.

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