Hair and nails continue to grow after death?

hair and nails continue to grow after you die. Is this true and if so, I would like to know how LTTE leader's deadbody seems clean shaved in T.V news?Hair and nails continue to grow after death?
I think Nancy Pelosi proves that point .Hair and nails continue to grow after death?
Actually, it's not true. As the body decomposes the skin tightens and shrinks, giving the static nails and hair the appearance of growth.
Actually this is just a myth. The hair and nails stop growing when the body dies. However, as the body dries out and loses water, the skin shrinks. This gives the illusion that the hair and nails have grown when it truth they really haven't.
No. Nothing grows after death. The dehydration of the body and shrinkage make it appear that they grow. It is impossible for anything to grow after death. No heartbeat, no oxygen. Your done growing.
A person's hair and nails does continue to grow. A person's hair grows a half an inch a month even after death. Depending on how the body is preserved decomposition can be slowed so aging can also be slowed.
They do not grow after death. It looks like that because the skin shrinks and pulls away from hair and nails, so it appears that they have grown. They haven't.
No. this is a myth, and not true. What happens is that skins retracts and shrinks making it appear that way.
They probably whipped him up pretty for the TV.








Can't have anything ugly on TV. It might make you feel a little better about yourself.
Not true. The body starts to decompose, (shrivel) and it only looks like hair and nails have grown.
The morgue workers could have shaven him.
no, the hair follicles and cuticles recede giving the appearance of growth