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

I've got a better one for hard core atheists. There's a video on Youtube from CNN about a 5 year old terminally ill child, whose parents let her pick if she wanted to go back to the hospital, which at best could only offer excruciatingly painful treatments to prolong her life, or she could stay at home for the remainder of whatever time she had left, and just go to Heaven when it was her time. A lot of atheists are VERY upset with this video and with the family's decision to let her choose, primarily because they say the parents lied to her about going to Heaven, they are very deeply troubled that a child was told she'll go to a wonderful place when she dies, even though they insist there's no form of afterlife whatsoever, so there's absolutely NO way she could ever know she was lied to. If there's nothing after this life, why would that 'lie' bother atheists who believe there's absolutely nothing once you die? How could you be so bothered by a lie that you truly believed would NEVER be found out? It really implies they think there's SOME kind of afterlife and when it doesn't live up to her expectations she'll be heartbroken. For an atheist, WHAT kind of sense does that make?