I used to think that when you died, you would be awake trapped in your coffin rotting for all eternity!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- 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 used to believe that if I pumped in my sleep and breathed it in I would turn into a rotting turnip!— Quako
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.— Jasmine
- When I was quite young, I believed that one's coffin was really a spaceship to take them to heaven.— Sunshine