Reminds me of the video game Fatal Frame.
Mourning jewelry sells for big bucks. If you believe Antiques Roadshow.
Creative estate planning and your heirs(hairs) could be set up nicely.
According to You Bet Your Garden, public radio’s gardening show, the hair-as-animal-repellent trick works, but not if the hair is from a vegetarian. You need it to smell like a carnivore. Mike McGrath, the show’s host, says hair on the ground under hosta beds will baffle slugs, because their goopy bodies get tangled up in it.
Cool! I’m happy to know that. She knew what she was doing.
Accelerate the development of hair products.
Commercially, hair could be used as slow-release fertiliser for plants. It contains nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium - not necessarily in huge abundance or in forms immediately available, but as it breaks down slowly over the course of years, it could provide a useful low-level and steady supply of plant nutrients.
I use feathers when I am planting shrubs for similar purposes; they are not the ‘best’ plant food, but they break down very slowly and release small, sustained doses of nutrient. I’ve done side-by-side tests (nothing with great empirical rigour) and it does seem to help shrubs and trees get established over a span of years/decades.
Wait…what?
Yeah, I guess if you had hair that grew long overnight, you could volunteer to be a test subject for hair products - the benefit for testing is that you could be both control subject and test subject on different days.
Hair extensions. I recall reading years ago there was a trade in women’s hair from India to the US for the purpose, because in India a fair number of young women would cut their traditionally long hair to express their independence, which made them an unusual source of long, unbroken human hair.