When I was 5 and my brother was 4, a close family friend died. My brother thought that she would come back to life in 3 days. We were raised Catholic and he thought that the Jesus story applied to everyone who died.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I used to believe that if you died you could have 'an operation' to bring you back to life. — Mikey
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- I used to believe that when you had a cousin twice-removed, they had died and came back to life twice.— Amanda
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha