When we're kids we think all kinds of maladies can happen to us and others simply due to a misstep, because as the old schoolyard rhyme goes "step on a crack, break your mother's back".
There are even times when kids believe the floor is covered with invisible lava, so it's not hard to imagine a kid thinking their ghost would get knocked out of their body if they fell down hard enough...oh wait, the kid in this Rustled Jimmies comic actually dies of a broken neck after slipping on a banana peel...
Man, that's some dark and twisted stuff they got goin' on there!
-Via Geeks Are Sexy