• The Lithuanian painting girl who appears at the beginning and ending of the movie, played by Ursula Clark, is based on real-life girl Akiane Kramarik, who affirmed live an NDE and meets Jesus in heaven. In addition, the painting about Jesus shown in the movie is the real painting made by Kramarik.
• Both Akiane Kramarik and Colton Burpo had a NDE, which allowed them having their revelations and visions. NDE is short for Near-Death Experience, a term established by first time by doctor Raymond Moody in his 1975's book "Life After Life". In it, Moody compiled real stories about patients who by a brief time was died and later lived again. The different stories had several common points:
  
  ·To be out of the physical body.
  
  ·Float around the rooftop of the room, seeing the own body in the bedroom.
  
  ·X-rays senses, with capability to see and hear people (familiar, friends...) in the next rooms, or even long-distance senses, with capability to see and hear people far away from their own location.
  
  ·Travel by a tunnel to high speed, with a great white light at the end.
  
  ·Meet in the light parents and friends previously dead.
  
  ·See a retrospective about the own lifeline, like movie frames.
  
  ·Feel a great peace and tranquility while standing in the light.
  
  ·Feel (not see) the presence of a powerful entity look-a-like a god.
  
  ·A voice saying "It's not your time" or something similar, and return from the light.
  
  ·Have a great feeling to fall from a high altitude, returning to the physical body and finally back to life.
• The real events about Burpo's story happened after Thursday, February 27, 2003. Colton Burpo, then three years and ten months old, was sick by stomach flu. Although to the next morning he was feeling better, Colton's condition took a drastic turn for the worse, and eventually he lands in the operating room fighting for his life due to appendicitis. After the operation, doctors and nurses believed Colton should die by his bad conditions, but a few days later, Colton's health get better and survived the appendicitis. About four months after the surgery, Colton began to tell his visions and revelations about Jesus, angels and heaven. Despite Colton's heart never stops beating during the operation and his life wasn't in danger, he said to leave behind his physical body and arrived to the heaven, where he met Jesus, a great grandfather died 30 years ago and an unborn sister, died about two months of pregnancy. Colton too affirmed see Jesus ride in a rainbow-colored horse, and to be sat in Jesus' lap while the angels sung him. In addition, Colton said see Mary standing beside Jesus, and kneeling before God's throne other times. His experiences turned in the 2010's book, that his title and plot was the base for the movie.

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