Thursday, January 10, 2008

What's up with that?

So, I have read in many forensic books that the skin and hair DO NOT continue to grow after death. The skin just shrinks, retracts, and rots away showing more of those materials. Yet I had a professor in Medical Terminology tell the whole class the opposite and I continue to read accounts of the opposite....
Why is this a debate? Is it not a scientifically proven fact that hair and nails DO NOT continue to grow? If anyone knows the truth let me know!

* fictitious conversation about this topic *

Friend: "Mike, why do you care?"
Mike: "Um...well...I'm just curious."
(ex) Friend: "You're creepy."

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