people

when passing a cemetary my dad said, "do you know what all those flowers are for?"
"no"
"under each flower is a dead body"

my mom protested: "don't tell her that!"
i assumed she was yelling at him for lying to me as he often did, so i didn't believe him.

optional

When I was a child and first heard about murder, I thought why don't the police just get a doctor's light and look at the back of the dead person's eyes? I was sure the face of the murderer would be recorded there, much like film being developed. Sure could solve a lot of crimes!

Julie

When I was little I thought that when people died that their bodies were recycled.The reason?One day I found a wart on my toe and a sunspot on my ear.I thought the wart and sunspot use to be an old man that dieds' body parts!I tried to take the wart off because I thought I could remove my bodyparts b-cuz god made the old mans' parts get removen.ow.!!!!!!!

Sidney Johnson

My dad was always very vitamin-aware while I was growing up, so I understood at a young age that vitamins were good for you. However, my friend Marie was not so lucky. One day she devoured one too many Flintstone vitamins, and seeing as how she wasn't sick and her mom wanted to try to save the surviving Flintstones her mom told her that an overdose of Flintstone vitamins can kill and her time might be up. Marie took the news hard, and cried the rest of the day. Finally I arrived, informed her that "you can't die from vitamins", and saved the day.

Murder by Flintstone

When I was little, i used to think that when people got really old, they would just hit an age and they would start getting younger and younger and younger, then when they were one again, they would get older, and then younger, and then older, and the cycle would repeat forever.

Lamaria

My brother once told me (and I believed him) that the reason coffins were opened only half way was because they cut the lower half of the body off. EGAD! and at of all places my mother's wake.

little Jen

When i was young, i would eat as many lollies as i could possible stuff in my mouth untill i was sooo full... Then my mum would always tell me "If you eat that many lollies you will pop!!" In my mind i had and image of somebody eating so much they would pop just like a huge balloon. I took easy on the lollies from that day on, it was only till i was about 10 that i finally twigged.... people can't pop...

Amelia

When my Granny died when I was 5 we where riding in the family limo I looked out the window and saw the herse with my Great granny in it, And asked my mom where the buzzards where because I thought that when any thing died buzzards would circle over u until you where buried.

Sugar Foots

I used to think when someone died you could just get on an airplane and fly up into Heaven and go see them. So I wasn't that sad when people died.

Anon

One time when i was 7 i was pretending to be a hairdresser and i accidentally squirted perfume in my mouth. I went straight to my bed because i wanted to die while i was in my warm, cozy bed.

i was frightened

When someone died, I thought that they would turn blue and walk around like everyone else, and that everyone could see them.

Pookey

I used to believe that when you died you went to a land of candyfloss where you could float around and not get fat ... Coincidently I used to belive that the clouds were made of candy floss ... maybe that has something to do with it?

JazzCool

i used to believe that Oncologist's were Dr.'s you saw when you had terminal illness, then i grew up and found out what Oncologist's really do.

Anon

when i was around 4, my cousin always read to me stories from the Bible. She came up to a part when she taught me people died they went to heaven. So everytime i saw an actor die in a movie i always thought that god didnt want them and let them keep living.

Michelle

when i was young i used to beleive that when someone dies an angel will come and pick the soul and takes the soul with him

sg

When I was young (around 5) my family fought alot and my brother has anger problems so I was always afraid he'd end up killing my mom or vice versa.

Pimp Skimpy

I used to believe that when u died people would u know go to the funeral bury u and all that then after a week or so you would go back to life but noone knew you were there.

CrazyGurl

For years I believed that my great grandmother had been eaten alive by desert crabs and had recurring nightmares about it terrified that I might meet the same fate. She'd had cancer.

Brad G.

I used to think that when someone "passed away" I thought it ment that they had just walked by. I also used to think that "passed on" ment they moved up in a line or something. Why does death have such complicating words? What's wrong with plain "died"?

Melanie

I used to think that if I stared at people long enough, they would die. My teachers were always telling me to stop staring!

Tori