I used to belive that you rented a coffin for the funeral and then just dumped the dead body into the dirt and left them there forever, and that the next person to die would get the other person's coffin.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- When i went to a funeral only a bit of the coffin was open so i thought when u died you turned into a migit.— Andrew
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- When I was quite young, I believed that one's coffin was really a spaceship to take them to heaven.— Sunshine
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa
- I used to think that when you died, you would be awake trapped in your coffin rotting for all eternity!— Trapped in the Coffin