When I was 5 I went to my great grandmother's wake with my mom. I understood what death was at 5, but my mom must not have realized this. When we were sitting down in the church, and everybody was going up to the casket, I asked my mom why there was a lid on the box (casket). She said that grandma was sick when she died and that the lid was in case she started coughing, they could close the box (casket) to keep all of us from getting sick. I was confused for a second, then asked her, "you can still cough after you die?" She said "yes." So, I believed that your body could cough for some time after you die. I believed this untill I was a teen-ager.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when i was in funeral the person in the casket was just asleep for a while— Edgar
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- My fiance was in church as a kid and he saw the Vicar of the church and asked his Mum if it was God.— Andys fiancee