I used to believe that everyone was supposed to live to the age 100 (at which age we would all presumabley drop). People only died earlier due to accidents or illness.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I always thought that freak accidents where accidents that only involved freaks.— Prologic-H-73395
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- i thought that all of the shows on tv where played live even when someone died. sad, i no.Anon
- 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
- When I was a child I used to believe that people died in order of age.— Silvia Spinetti