From the account of Dr. George G. Ritchie’s near-death experience given in his book Return from Tomorrow:
“What did you do with your life?
It seemed to be a question about values, not facts: What did you accomplish with the precious time you were allotted?
How much have you loved with your life? Have you loved others as I am loving you? Totally? Unconditionally?
I have shown you by the life I lived. I showed you by the death I died. And if you keep your eyes on Me, you will see more. . . . ”
“Death is nothing more than a doorway,” Dr. Ritchie insisted, “something you walk through.”
George G. Ritchie, M.D. (1923-2007), was born in Richmond, Virginia. He eventually served as president of Richmond’s Academy of General Practice; chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Towers Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia; and founder and president of the Universal Youth Corps, Inc., for almost twenty years. In 1967, he entered private psychiatric practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. Then, in 1983, he moved to Anniston, Alabama, in order to serve as head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center. He returned to Richmond in 1986 to continue in private practice, retiring in 1992.
Posted from Richmond, Virginia
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