When my sister and I were young we used to believe that in order to be dead your tongue had to be hanging out. No exceptions.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon