When I first learned about the concept of death, I also learned that a common cause of death is old age. I thought "I'm getting older... oh my god - I'm gonna die soon!" I was so scared until I relised that I had alot more time to go before I would die of old age.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- I used to believe that death come to visit you. — Lesley
- I used to believe that if you bled to death, you'd get flat!— Lisa G