Story of four-year-old’s near-death experience transfixes America

April 29th, 2014

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Colton went on to recognise a photograph of a great-grandfather he had never
met and talked about a sister he said told him she had “died in their
mother’s tummy”.

The family had never discussed the baby his mother Sonja lost to a miscarriage
a year before Colton’s birth, or told him about his father’s rant against
God as he lay on the operating table.

These details helped to convince them that Colton’s claims were true, and Mr
Burpo went on to write a book about his experiences.

Also called Heaven is for Real, it became an unlikely bestseller, spending
three years at the top of the charts. Now, 10 years after Colton’s brush
with death on a hospital operating table, it has been made into a film
starring Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo.

Opening on Easter weekend, the movie was an instant hit, taking $22.5 million
(£13.4 million) in its first three days and easily overshadowing
Transcendence, a blockbuster starring Johnny Depp which had been expected to
dominate the box offices.

^{The Burpo family, from left, Sonja, Cassie, Todd, Colton and Cole

(front) attend the Dallas International Film Festival World Premiere of

TriStar Pictures’ “Heaven Is For Real” (Getty)}

Not surprisingly, the film appears to have struck a particular chord in the
Bible Belt of the American Mid-West, where it has played to rapturous and
often tearful crowds who seem to view Colton’s claims as gospel.

But critics have warned against taking the little boy’s particularly childlike
visions of riding a rainbow-coloured horse in heaven while being serenaded
by angels singing Jesus Loves You too literally.

He also described Jesus as having “brown hair, a brown beard, a very bright
smile and his eyes were just beautiful sea blue”.

In her review of the book, Susan Jacoby, who billed herself as “The Spirited
Atheist” on her blog for the Washington Post, said: “Only in
America could a book like this be classified as non-fiction.

“At age four, an inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality is
charming. But among American adults, widespread identification with the mind
of a preschooler is scary.”

Even some members of Mr Burpo’s own Baptist congregation in their home town of
Imperial, Nebraska, were initially wary of his claims, something he found
particularly upsetting. But the family has now got used to dealing with scepticism, and continue to
deny that they or anyone else coached Colton to come up with his
extraordinary story.

Mr Burpo told the Huffington Post: “Colton knew things that no four-year-old
could have known, things no Sunday School teacher would have taught him. “This is not a Christian film with a whitewashed easy story where everything
turns out fine and life is easy. This is our real life. It’s not fiction at
all, this is real and I want people to know that and be given hope”.

Colton himself, now a 14-year-old would-be musician, continues to believe
fervently that he died and went briefly to heaven while surgeons fought for
his life, and uses his experiences to comfort children suffering from
terminal illnesses.

He says he is a big fan of the film, although its makers haven’t quite
captured the glories he has seen.

“They do a good job but they haven’t experienced it like I have,” he said.
“Heaven is just so much better than that.”

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