I used to believe that every one was born with a set amount of sentances and once you got to your last sentance you died. The amount varried from person to person, and that's why people died at different ages. This is also why people spoke about 'last words'
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I thought a serial killer was a person who ate a ridiculous amount of cereal— Aja
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon - From the ages of 4-10 (I'm 10) I thought a "Cat Burgler" was a person who stole cats.— MarkoPolo5000
- I used to believe that when people died, they vanished into thin air. — KJ
- I used to believe that when people died their eyes would turn to XsAnon