I had no concept of death. I thought that when people died they were taken away in an ambulance, and then brought back from hospital when they'd recovered.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- My mom thought "ambulance" was "ambliance"— Molly
- I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder
- I used to believe that if you died you could have 'an operation' to bring you back to life. — Mikey