I was four years old when an elderly auntie, visiting from England, had a heart attack and died on our bathroom floor.
After the paramedics took her, I was afraid to go into the bathroom for the rest of the day, and I told my mother I didn't want to see the blood on the floor. I think the only experience I had with seeing dead things was roadkill, gutted fish, etc. and I assumed death had to be bloody.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when my fish died and floated to the top, it was playing dead.— Alycia T
- I used to believed that when I went to sleep my heart took a rest too, and didn't pump at all while I slept.— Lara
- When I was little, I used to believe I could fly from my bed but I didn"t ....I fell on the floor!Anon
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- I thought you always die if you A. get cancer or B. have a heart attack— Nate
- I was told that if you dropped food on the floor, the devil kissed it. — Teresa