people

I remember going to a good deal of funerals when I was little, and knew clear and well that the people in these 'big shiny boxes with pretty blankets'- were not going to get up and make people stop crying, no one in my family explained 'death' to me, so I basically had to teach myself.

Cruel as it sounds I never cared about the body that was in the boxes I always wonder what came out of them, you see I had my own little concept of 'soul and spirit' but since I was a child I never knew what each was (in a specific sense), but I did know there was something, and that the body wasn't important at that time.

When I was 12 my brother died and I never cried at his funeral, I still had/have that belief that it wasn't him in the coffin he was/is somewhere else- a good place. ^_^

i miss him a lot

KittDawn

I used to think that when you were dead, they could give you a pill to make you alive again. My brother and I used to play "hospital", and if one of us "died", the other would administer an "alive pill".

This was before I saw The Princess Bride, so you can imagine how hard I was giggling at the Miracle Max scene!

Athazagoraphobia

I have no idea how I came up with this, but as a for and five year old, I thought that when you died, your eyes didn't close all the way. I mean, they were 90% closed, but they were still a tiny bit open. I also remember thinking that death was less total than fainting, during which your wyes close all the way.

I'm not dead yet

i used to believe that if i strung beads to make a necklace, some will enter my mouth by accident and kill me. i stopped making bead necklaces since then >.<

ly

When I was little I didn't know what a cemetery was, and I always wanted to stop and pick all the pretty flowers. But my mom told me that we couldn't pick those flowers.

HM

i believed that my parents were imposters...i believed you never knew when you died, life just kept going on without so much as a ripple and if you had been good bad things would just stop happening...but for kids like me...the bad things would just get worse and it would never end and you would never know

reMARKable

when i first herd abo0ut death i was very sad because it waws then at the age of 6 that i realise my grandad wasnt come back.
I also used to believe that when u died you went to hell and come back to earth as a wolf.

v.l.b

When I was four, my parents told me that my grand-grand mom had gone to heaven. So, whenever I went to her house, I always asked why she took so long to come home.

Anon

My mother tells me that when I was young, I used to asked her often if:
"I was dead before I was born."

To this day, she has never reaaallly been able to answer the question. Can anybody?

gschmigel

I used to believe that if I lied perfectly still with my arms at my sides at night, they would think I was dead and bury me alive.

Anon

I used to believe that when I saw a brilliant beam of sun poking through the clouds, a person had just died and was going to heaven. I don't know how this belief started, but it was confirmed for me once: I saw one of these scenes while returning from a trip to my grandmother's house, and found out when we got home that our neighbor (whom we were close with) had died of cancer. Even now (age 25) when I see a sunbeam like this, I get a little nervous.

Beam-o

when i was ten i learnt the word "suicide" and up until the time i was twelve i thought it was pronounced "sewercide" and that when people killed themselves they would do it in the sewer to avoid possible rescue.

witch