I used to believe that the instant you died your name automatically appeared in the bible, so when my Grandma died I asked if she was in the bible.

Anon

My grandpa died of a heart attack shortly before my birth. For years, I thought his heart was attacked by something, like tiny ants who entered his body with swords and such and attacked his heart and killed him. No matter who had this heart attack, that same army of ants would attack people's hearts, so my little head believed. Fortunately, I finally asked Dad, and he told me what happened, in little kid terms.

Cara

When I was a kid I would see R.I.P. on gravestones and I thought that was the guys name. I remarked once to my mother, "man that guy RIP is burried all over the place." She then explained, "It means rest in peace."

Jennifer

When someone died, I thought that they would turn blue and walk around like everyone else, and that everyone could see them.

Pookey

I used to belive that if u step on someones grave their hands would come out of the ground ,grab you and put u in the coffin in the place of the dead body. I thought tbhey did that so the dead person can live longer

HPotter Gurl

I believed that the rays of sun you see coming through the clouds were actually the spirits of dead giants going up to heaven

Beth

I used to believe that if you walked through a graveyard at night then you would be friends with all the dead people because you gave up your sleeping time to come and say hello to them! There was an old wrecked graveyard just up the road from my old house and because the gates were broken I used to leave my house at night to go and be nice to the dead people. Then I used to tell everybody that I was friends with dead people!

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I used to believe that you could only ever die on your birthday.

Anon

At the age of three my cousin and I believed that people automatically died when they reached the age of 20. I have a clear memory of panicking when he told me my Dad was at least 19.

Anon

When I was a child I believed that if I went into a room and couldn't remember what I was doing there, one of my family members would die.

L.N.

When I was 5 I went to my great grandmother's wake with my mom. I understood what death was at 5, but my mom must not have realized this. When we were sitting down in the church, and everybody was going up to the casket, I asked my mom why there was a lid on the box (casket). She said that grandma was sick when she died and that the lid was in case she started coughing, they could close the box (casket) to keep all of us from getting sick. I was confused for a second, then asked her, "you can still cough after you die?" She said "yes." So, I believed that your body could cough for some time after you die. I believed this untill I was a teen-ager.

William Paul

On a flight to America my dauther asked if she would see her Gran in the clouds as we passed through them. Her Gran had died the month before.

Morag

When I was four, my parents told me that my grand-grand mom had gone to heaven. So, whenever I went to her house, I always asked why she took so long to come home.

Anon

I believed that Rigor Mortis was the name of a lounge singer that my parents would go out and see sing sometimes.

Anon

When I was little, I overheard my mother and grandmother talking about my great grandmother who was dying of cancer and was jaundiced and I remember them talking about how yellow her skin was. From then on, I thought that if you colored your skin with a yellow highlighter or marker, you would get cancer and die. I still get a little freaked out if I get some on my hand. Kids associate the wierdest things.

Lisa

Apparently from seeing EKG's on TV, my daughter believes people die when their heart stops "beeping."

Jager

When I was young I thought that if you were to lie on your back, perfectly straight, with your arms folded in an "x" over your chest and went to sleep that way you would die.

dee

I was always told that the good die young, so then I always thought my grandparents must have been really bad at some point in their lives, cos they were really old when they died (they seemed pretty good to me)now I am getting older I couldn't possibly believe it!

Bridgy

When I was about 5 or 6 I used to think that the flower holders on the graves were breathing holes. I didn't realise that when you died, you didn't breathe anymore!

The purple One

I used to think that the actors who died in movies actually died. I thought the directors had a casting call before shooting the movie where people who wanted to die would line up and get assigned parts.

Rebecca