Most physicians queried on this one initially thought it was true. Upon further reflection, they realized it’s impossible.
Not surprisingly, the fact most often offered up as revealed truth is wholly false: Your hair and nails do not continue to grow after you die; it’s all optical illusion.
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 other.

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