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“Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor
just a coincidence?”

No coincidence. Faith.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Your typical anti-religion zealot would try to explain this away as the boy being delusional while he was ill and had fallen back on what his pastor father had taught him.

The trouble is that these type of stories abound even among people with little religious background or belief in the afterlife. There is a whole science on the study of near death experiences which man's science alone cannot explain.

One of the better authors I read on the topic wrote an outstanding book on the topic. He was an MD and an atheist when he set out to research people who had NDE's or measured their vital reactions as they passed away. He became a Christian after he completed the research for the book. It was excellent, but I cannot remember the name of the book or the author.

FWIW, I was with an older brother in his final days before he passed away. He described conversations with long gone relatives who I had barely heard of or knew little about. Later, when I checked out the specifics of these conversations with older relatives who knew them better, they were astounded by the details of what my brother related. I've got to believe he was drifting in and out of an NDE in those final days.