once when i was at my uncle's funeral (he'd died very suddenly) and the minister opened up the sermon with, "we can't even really believe he's dead..." my brother got really freaked out and turned to my parents, worriedly asking, "wait...we don't know he's dead??" he thought we might be burying him alive!!!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- 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
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon