I use to think people would only die on their birthday when they became a certain age, but then my grandpa died of cancer. . .
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When i was younger i was always really afraid of those 3 letters R.I.P. I didn't figure out what they meant until I was 20 something. But whenever I saw those letters i knew there was nothing good about them!
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When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school.
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when i was younger i use to believe that when someone died you could just send them a balloon and it would go up to heaven.
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My grandfather (my mom's dad) died when she was 15 years old. When I turned 15 I was convinced my dad was going to doe because I was 15 too.
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I used to believe that when people died their eyes would turn to Xs
I used to believe that dogs and cats would be able to speak to us when we all died and went to heaven. This is why sometimes dogs would stare at you - they were paying close attention to what you were doing so they could remember for the afterlife. I was particularly embarrassed about what my childhood dog might reveal about me, so I would tell her lots of stories to try and confuse her about what was made up and what actually happened.
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When I was little, I used to believe that people died from gun shots and deep wounds because the wound was just big enough for the person's soul to get out and fly away. Because of that belief, I had a phobia of getting hurt or cut since 5th grade in fear that my soul might fly away.
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When I was little, I believed that when you died, you came back to earth as another person, except you were in a higher order, until you had to start all over again when you couldn't go any higher. So sometimes, when I was listening to my Britney Spears CD, I'd yell "I WAS HER NOT TOO LONG AGO!"
I still believe this. Hopefully I'll get to be as rich as Donald Trump with Carmen Elecktra's looks one day :)
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when i was younger i used to belief that when you died you would come back to haunt the people that made fun of you or just did really mean things to other people and later that next day they would die the same way you did
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when i was yunger i thought that if you ate vegtables you will die because my friend died (because of a heartattack) one hour after she ate vegtables
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When I was 5 I used to think that a will was a list of things that you could put in your coffin once you were dead. My will consisted of, amongst other things, my doll Mary!
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When I was small My rabbit was very ill and my dad decided that he would put it to sleep so we woke and he said the rabbit had "past away" but then 4 days ago It came out and actually he had hit it over the head with a hammer.
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I used to believe that manhole covers were grave stones for all the little children that didn't look both ways before crossing the street.
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When I was about 8 my dog got hit by a car and had to be put to sleep. My parents explained the vet would give her a needle and she would just go to sleep forever. I was so upset about this that I would cry for hours at night. My parents thought I was just upset that the dog was dead but really it was because I thought if she slept forever instead of dying that she'd never go to heaven. I didn't know why they wouldn't just let her die.
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When my son was 5 years old, his great uncle died. I told him we were going to "a wake" for Uncle Steve. Naturally when we arrived at the funeral home, my son was very upset when he couldn't "awake" Uncle Steve. It was very, very sad.
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When I was 4 my dad died. In trying to explain what death was my granny told me it's like going to sleep and never waking up. I thought if I went to sleep he would come get me and then I'd never wake up either.
I'm 37 and I'm still afraid to sleep.
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When my dog died, I was convinced she was still alive, just "Holding her breath!" I thought that dieing meant you just stopped breathing; I had no clue about the heart needing to beat...
Hey, I was only five!
I thought dead people were buried in laundry baskets. My mom's Daddy Ted died of cancer when I was four. My mother was trying to explain what we did with the dead. In her explanation of putting people in the ground she mentioned the casket, I thought she said basket. So for many years I thought her Daddy Ted was curled up in the ground in a laundry basket.
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When I was about 6-7, I believed that when someone died, they'd come back as the total opposite of what they were. For example: If a black man died, he'd be reborn as a white woman.