when there is a murder,on the news they always say "a body has been found..." for years i wondered why no one seemed to have a head when they died....

*maeve*fenton* bee happy****

I used to think that when there were going to be people who died in a movie, the producers held a meeting of people who wanted to die in real life and then chose someone to cast in the movie and that person actually died.

J

when i was 4 my grandpa died & when i asked my mom why ,she said from a bad stomach ache... so everytime i had a stomach ache i thought i was going to die and i would cry for hours & lay in bed & prepare to die.. this went on until i was about 10

Lauren

When my son was four a very loved neighbor passed away. I sat David down on the porch to tell him about Grampa Bob. I looked into his little face and told him but he did not understand. So I asked him if he remembered when his goldfish died? He got this terrible look on his face and asked me how Grampa Bob would fit down the toilet!

Carole

when i was younger my dad told me that if you walked over a grave the dead body would reach out and grab your leg and drag you down into the ground

JG

When i was little my mom told me that when people died they turned to dust. So when i played under the bed and saw dust i thought it was dead people.

Brooks

I used to believe that if you cut off the circulation of a body part, then that body part would become white until it became totally invisible. So my concept for someone passing away was that all their blood was gone and all their skinned became invisible. Also known as a ghost.

Karen

My belief was that heaven was on top of big white fluffy clouds, that men and women would be literally sat on these clouds dressed in ancient Greek style robes playing Connect Four. The first time I flew, I remember watching intently believing that we were going to see heaven, as we rose in the clouds, a little child screamed 'Polar Bear' waking my at times dippy mother who yelled look Becks a Polar Bear! At however many feet I intuitively realised that we couldn't see a Polar Bear on Earth but I was slightly bemused as to what has happed to Heaven.

Becca

i used to think that everybody died by falling off a building.i know its wierd but i saw it in a movie and thought that eveyone died that way.

grace

I used to believe that everyone carried maggot "eggs", or "larvae" in their bodies and when they died, the maggots knew it and came to life to eat your body.

J

I was told as a kid that people and animals 'went to be an angel' rather than 'died', so I naturally believed that all the representations of angels that I saw were actually a type of ghost.

This stayed with me as a sort of superstition, so that anyone calling a beautiful child a 'little angel' around me would be told 'No! He's not! He's NOTHING LIKE an angel!', to their great bewilderment.

Also, the sight of children in Nativity plays in angel costumes even now fills me with dread. Don't their mothers KNOW they're tempting fate!

Carla Randle

when i was a kid i thought that when you died, giant " THE
END" words appeared, followed by a list of credits....guess
i was wrong....

funonthrun

On my first trip to Medieval Times (the one restaurant where you can watch a jousting show while eating old-style food) when I was nine, I thought the knights were really stabbing and killing eachother and therefore thought it must be quite a dangerous (not to mention suicidal o.o) job.

And then they all came back at the end and I was like "huh what"

Anon

When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.

Cindy

I was shocked when I found out that people actually bled after being shot.We never saw blood in the old black and white movies we saw on TV in the fifties.

Hollyin La

When I was around 6, I thought that the earth will be fully destroyed in 2000 and the human beings shall be disappeared. Thanks God, it's 2003 now I am 23 already.

Pichy

When I was a kid, I used to believe people died once they were over 21.

Pleased my mother for years though, because I refused to believe she was older than 21, even though she had turned 40! :)

K

When I was young (okay I still believe it when I'm a little tired) I believed that you could die without realizing it. When a car zoomed by quickly I would wonder if I had been run over and had not yet realized I was dead.

Anon

I used to believe that dead people weren't put in coffins, they were just buried in the ground and at night the cemertry would be full of dead floating people scaring us away.
I used to hate going there in the daytime and at night!

Melaine - Darwin NT

when i was little i thought people never died but shrank back into babys when they were old and when i grew up i would be looking after my mum and dad when they were babys

sarah