I thought that everyone when they died went to hell. Why? They were always buried in the ground and hell was supposedly down there. The only people that went to heaven were cremated. So I told my mother that when I died I wanted to be cremated.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- when i was little i used to believe that when you died a helicopter came to take you to heaven— purplefish