Tran Van Hay died of natural causes, at the age of 79, at his home in Kien Giang province on Fri, Feb 25, 2010., after dedicating his life to curing people, for free. His wife, Nguyen Thi Hoa, says Tran’s personality changed completely after he stopped cutting his hair – he became inspired by the local Buddhist monks in nearby pagodas to learn traditional medicine to help the poor, and lived a content life, as a herbalist.
He was 79 and unfortunately died before receiving formal acknowledgement of his record.
He had stopped cutting his hair 50 years ago and his hair was 6.8m (22ft.) long and weighed 10.5kg (23 lbs). The world record is now in the name of a Chinese woman whose hair is 5.6m long.
According to his wife Nguyen Thi Hoa, Tran hadn’t gotten a haircut in over 50 years, after getting seriously sick after cutting his hair, when he was 25 years old. And, in half a century, he only washed it a few times, the last time being 11 years ago.
But his hair had become too much of a burden in his day-to-day life; he could not work as a farmer because of it.
At the time of his death, Tran Van Hay’s hair was over 6.8 meters long and weighed around 10.5 kilograms. As impressive as that sounds, the hair was a real problem for Tran, who couldn’t even catch a motorcycle taxi or work as a farmer, because of the giant pile of hair he had to balance on top his head.
The herbalist was providing free treatment to poor patients in Chau Thanh District until his death.
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