If you believe in life after death (redux) ....

If it was my child then I would offer the same choice and,  if the kid believed in heaven , why not use it? The suggestion of heaven, at worst is just a sop to make a bad situation seem a bit better (just as it has worked to assuage people with promises of jam tomorrow for those who suffer on earth, down the millennia). But I know that if it was me, an unbeliever from a young age and my parents had tried it on, it would actually have made things worse, since I would have guessed there was no real answer and they were likely just grasping. I guess I am not one of 'most atheists' then.

And, as an atheist I would be more deeply troubled by the fact that God deliberately created natural evil in the first place - and supposedly takes pleasure in His creation too.