If they weren't embalmed, wouldn't their hair and nails grow after expiration?

If a deceased was clean shaven, then checked a day later...
Wouldn't hair have grown?
A week or two later...
Wouldn't their nails have grown?If they weren't embalmed, wouldn't their hair and nails grow after expiration?
Neither hair or nails grow after death. Death stops all the processes that repair or make things grow. The illusion of growth comes from the dehydration of the skin and other decomposition processes.
Yep. I don't remember the mechanism, but hair and nails continue to grow for a short period of time after death.
I have read about the 'look' of growing hair and nails after death. I read that the body shrinks up so much that it just appears to have the nails and hair having grown.
Yes. It's not only your nails and hair, men's ears and noses grow as well.
not at all
this is a fallacy skin shrinks from dessication (loss of water) after death and this is why it appears that hair & nails have grown around those areas
The hair and nail do not really grow. the skin begins to pull back giving the illusion of growth. Dead is dead.
Yes, hair and nails would grow slightly, but only for a short period of time after death. You couldn't come back after a year and expect to see (if someone was clean shaven) a full head of hair on the top of thier head.