[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','Infindel B',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]And I want to say that I think you are doing right by your family and son. Keep telling your son the truth, keep proving the charlatans wrong.
In a way, I feel that the lies of an afterlife do far more harm, than whatever measure of "comfort" they provide. I think they sell false hope at the cost of closure.
When someone[/font]* [font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','Infindel B',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]we love dies, I feel pretty certain we will never see them again. If that is the case, we have not only a right, but almost a duty to grieve their loss in full, to release our sorrow, and come to terms with their passing in our own way.
They meant so much to us, who are they to take our grief away?
It should be raw. It should be real. That is what it means to have loved someone.
I think the lies of comfort rob us of those emotions. Not only that, those lies are not even really for our sake. They are more to make everyone around us feel better because they don't have to see us hurting. We earned that right to hurt, to mourn, and maybe even shed tears. Just because it is depressing to them does not give anyone a right to take that away.
And just because we are hurting, that does not mean we are broken. We don't need redeeming, we don't need saving, we have no sins to be forgiven. We are all human. We laugh, we cry, and we hurt. There is nothing wrong with that. Being human, or simply being born is not something anyone needs to be forgiven for.
All that we really need is the truth so that we can truly live the lives we have:
Unbroken and real.
May you and your family find your own peace 
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*Not just humans
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