Haven’t read this in 10 years, exgirlfriend sent it to me back then. I always remembered this one. And back then I was a militant atheist nutball, for some reason I still read it.
Unfortunately the boy didn’t write it. He plagerized it from a book (can’t remember it off the top of my head) and the family learned about a year after his death. While I don’t take everything from Snopes as gospel they have the author and name of the book at their site. I got this email about 6 months ago and checked it out then.