Wednesday, November 23, 2011

It is true that finger nails grow a little even after death?

Recent discoveries says that is incorrect. We have the illusion that finger nails and hair grow even after death but that's due to the fact that the skin dries and shrinks.It is true that finger nails grow a little even after death?
I believe not. I saw this documentary on the History channel about vampires and 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 /growing/, not hands, feet, and heads /shrinking/, we perceive this change as an increase in one rather than a decline in the otherIt is true that finger nails grow a little even after death?
It's actually not true, but the skin of your hands retracts and shrivels, pulling away from your finger nails which makes your nails look longer.
They don't really grow. When you die everything stops. The skin shrinks and gets tighter leaving more fingernail exposed, so it LOOKS like it grew but only more nail is sticking out.

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