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Show most recent or highest rated first. Common beliefs in this section include:- Euthanasia is youth in Asia
- If you don't hold your breath as you pass a cemetery you will die or become possessed.
- People killed in films or on TV die in real life.
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When I was younger I thought you could die only from being shot or hit in the head or the heart. I have now found out you can die from everything from an undercooked hamburger to alcohol poisoning, just to name a few.
Billy Bob
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Up till about the age of 10, I used to think that a cemetary was a place where they buried people in cement, and the grass was just on top.
Scott
I believed that I died at the age of five. I was teasing my 3-year-old sister about something on Sesame Street and she got mad and killed me with a poker by the fire place. I believed that all the people in that reality mourned my death. And I just went on thinking that I was alive. I though that it happened like this for everyone all of the time.
Rachael Keri Williams
When I was young I wanted to join the airforce, because when I was killed in action I would not have so far to go to reach heaven.
Mark
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I used to think 'feared dead' means the person got afraid of something and died. My dad and brother till date tease me with that (now brave 23)
biophysics
I used to think in my dreams (until 8) that after people die, you 'll go to China (I dont know why I thought so..) and wait in a queue, the officer will decide whether to send to you to hell or heaven.
biophysics
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By the age of 4 or 5, I'd noted my parents were taller than my grandparents, and both were taller than my great-grandmother (whom I'd been told would soon die). I therefore concluded that people grew to a peak height at my parents' age, then progressively shrank thereafter. I assumed at the time that Great-Granny's 'death' would be a matter of her shrinking to nothingness in her bed. This latter part of the theory was revised after her funeral a couple of years later.
Randy Whitaker
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When I was young, I really used to believe that 'R.I.P.' (on a gravestone) meant 'Return If Possible.'
Colin
When we were kids playing Cowboys and Indians, when my brother was 'shot' he always 'died' lying on his back legs straight and with his arms out each side. Eventually I became cross with his lack of imaginative poses and asked why he always 'died' like that. It turned out that he believed that everyone went into that position when they died because that's how Jesus died on the cross.
Kim
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I used to believe that, as heaven was in the sky and it was always represented as people floating about on clouds, grey clouds had more dead people on them. The darker the cloud, the more dead people on it. And they could SEE you...
Scal
every time i saw the sun shining through the clouds, i thought it was a person going to heaven,which meant lots of people died in the same places at the same time.
mim
my mother died when i was only 6... she had a twin sister i had Only seen in pictures. So there i sat at my mothers funeral sitting beside my mother. I thought she just didn't like me anymore so she pretended to die so she could get away :(
Rough year.
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i used to believe that a dagger from hell was launched at the same time you were born, and it would gradually make it's way to you and kill you.....I'm 44 now, and it hasn't found me yet- perhaps it is just round the corner?
wendy porrill
I used to believe when young that the world was a rational place, to the extent that one would live an exact number of years and die on one's birthday. Childhood fears included the witch under the bed who would grab my ankle if I put a leg out of bed, and a fear that I would fall into the toilet, shrinking and disappearing around the u-bend as I fell.
Bob
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i used to believe that euthanasia has something to do with young chinese people
CW
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.
William Paul
every one lived until they were 100 and then they died no questions asked
sext4eva
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I lived in a northern town in British Columbia where our family of 5 children used to run wild all day just coming in for meals. I was about 3/4 years old and came across the neighbour's cat lying in a field blown apart by a shotgun. I went home and told my mother and she said that Mr. McGregor (yes he really was called that!) had shot the cat because he was sick. About a week later I was in bed with a high fever. My mother was stroking my forehead, saying, "Poor Sandy, Sandy's sick". I immediately asked if my dad "was gonna shot me?"
Sandy
when i was younger i used to believe that when someone died all of the dead people hung about on street corners and kill ya so they could have some company
lucy
when i was young, i used to believe that after people died ,angels took there souls and trapped them in the sky as stars.Thats why stars are countless. :)
Omer Bari
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