Death
Ritter had his last recording session for Capitol Records in 1973. In 1974, he had a heart attack and died in Nashville, 10 days before his 69th birthday.
His last song, "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)", reached No. 35 on the country chart shortly after his death. He is interred at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches, Texas.
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“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
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