once when i was at my uncle's funeral (he'd died very suddenly) and the minister opened up the sermon with, "we can't even really believe he's dead..." my brother got really freaked out and turned to my parents, worriedly asking, "wait...we don't know he's dead??" he thought we might be burying him alive!!!

Cammy

My great-grandmother (age 97) was the first funeral that I went to. It was open casket, and it smelled terrible. I thought it was the body! It wasn't until they brought all the flowers back to the house that I realized it was the daisies.

me again

When I was six or seven, I used to think that if you swallowed even the tiniest piece of plastic, you were doomed to death. I also thought that plastic and paper were the same thing. So, one Christmas after presents were opened and breakfast was being prepared, I accidently (don't ask me how) swallowed a bit of wrapping paper or something like that. When I realized with horror what I had done, I crawled behind the couch and waited to die. After about thirty seconds, I realized I wasn't going to die, at least not then anyway. So I went and ate breakfast. The end.

Zach

I used to believe that the R.I.P on graves meant that was the persons name 'rip', i always wondered why all the rip's seemed to be dying!

Jess

I used to think when someone died you could just get on an airplane and fly up into Heaven and go see them. So I wasn't that sad when people died.

Anon

hought "R.I.P" on a gravestone ment that peopkle wanted the body ripped up, so no goatst would come to haunt them.

Anon

When my grandfather died, we were at the wake and everyone was talking loudly. My little sister didn't really understand what was going on (she was 2), so she thought my grandpa was just sleeping so at one point she said to everyone, "ssh, he's sleeping!" Everyone started cracking up.

Molly

I used to believe that when you die an anbulance came for you and flew up to heaven and dropped you off in a cloud.... those were the days... lol

Jazzy.D

a boy once told me that when girls got their period and if they werent careful and touched the blood accidentaly they would die. i was very very careful.

courtney

when about 4 i remember asking my father what happens when you die. He informed me that when he died, as far as he could tell, the world would end. I dont think i was really ready for this kind of zen....

cc

when i was about 4-5 years old, one of my friends told me that if you put your arms in a cross and and pushed someone with your arms in that position, they would die. I was realy terrified

Anders Panners

When I was 6 or 7 I had been to several funerals for very old people. I wasn't afraid of death because I believed you just crossed your arms and went to sleep. Everyone in the coffins had their arms crossed, so I figured that is how they died. Seemed very nice.

Sherry from NC

I remember telling a friend that when I died and went to Heaven, I'd go visit famous people like Elvis Presley.

Laura G.

my parents told my brother and i that my grandpa died because he didn't eat peas, so we were told to eat our peas or else!!!

Amanda

When I was little, my granny told me that if I left my drink sitting for awhile that a little worm would crawl into the drink and if I drank the drink I would die. She said she knew a man that it had happened to. She only did this so I would finish my drink and not leave it sitting around, and I think it was pretty ridiculous, but to this day I still don't like to leave a glass or a can with any drink in it and I refuse to drink anything that's been sitting out of my sight for any amount of time.

Brittany

every one lived until they were 100 and then they died no questions asked

sext4eva

When I was little I overheard my older brother talking to my mom about dying and something that I didn't understand about a "coffin". For some reason I thought that this "coffin" was in fact a large, terrible bird. I became terrified that a large bird would come and get me. Made sense, as a stork brought me...

Sal

i believed that my parents were imposters...i believed you never knew when you died, life just kept going on without so much as a ripple and if you had been good bad things would just stop happening...but for kids like me...the bad things would just get worse and it would never end and you would never know

reMARKable

I said to my mum when I was about 6 "Mum - you know when you die, and they put you in the box, how do you breath?"

Lesley

when i was about 7 I thought that the only way you could die was if somebody killed you or you had an accident or something. I thought that you would grow old and stay like that forever. When my mom actually told me how it was, I started screaming and throwing stuff. (i also couldn't sleep for days)

JSRG