Myth Busting

Evil J likes to torture me. I was telling him how Regina Spektor wrongly sings about how hair grows even after we die in her song Ghosts of the Corporate Future. The lyrics are as follows..

Maybe you should cut your own hair
'Cause that can be so funny
It doesn't cost any money
And it always grows back
Hair grows even after you're dead

Not true!

Hair doesn't grow after you die. It can't. Dead is dead. That means no life.

Then why do hair and nails appear longer?

Good question. They appear longer because the skin around the hair and nails lose water, shrink, and retract. No growth, just shrinkage. And here's the proof!

They don't call me Wonder Killer for nothin'..