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Do nails and hair grow after one dies?

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No: Nails do not grow and hair sometimes has the appearance of growing due to contracture and drying of the skin around the hair, but in fact the hair does not grow after death.

Dr Ferdowsi and another doctor agreed

Answered 1/5/2019

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