When I attended my first wake, I remember the my dead next door neighbor opening his eyes. Because my aunt was holding me so I could look in the coffin, I thought that it must just be like this. She wasn't scared. The next day, I went to the funeral. I remember the sight of the coffin being closed, and going to the the graveside. However, they did not lower the coffin into the ground, so I thought that after everyone left the dead body would be removed from the casket and dumped into the ground, like you bury a dead pet! You could use that coffin over and over again. Protect your kids from funerals as long as possible.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- 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
- 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