So, when it comes to politics you believe in courtesy, but when it comes to the parents of a dead child relating a comforting story, it's okay to be rude, a la, "Family is stupid"?
I've been around a lot of people as they died...some were unconscious, but some were awake and aware...one, a young woman with cancer, spoke clearly about seeing the beautiful flowers of heaven, smelling the wonderful perfume...she saw her parents waiting for her, and died with her eyes wide open, free of pain, and smiling.
I have no problem with someone who does not believe in God, or heaven, or the angels of a little boy dying...but I certainly don't think the family is stupid. I'm grateful they are comforted.
Perhaps you've hit on the very reason for this anomaly. Whether it is an angel (which I am inclined to doubt) or not, the effect was to comfort the family in this most horrible time.
You better believe it. Just as you better believe there are demons.
My brother swore that around 3AM , 3 people came into his room at the hospital, and told him, he would be coming to the other side soon, and not to be afraid. That was all they said. They turned and walked out of the room. A minute later his nurse came in and after asking her, she said no one was in the Intensive Care Unit except for nurses. A week later he died sleeping in his recliner at home. Apparently, without any suffering. I tend to believe those were angels.