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Then God seems to have taken his time in dealing with him. Given God's utter glee at wiping out large numbers of people in the OT, giving this guy an aneurism 20 years ago seems like a small thing.

Note that nobody has said God killed him, so your comparison doesn't really work. As for the OT, I wouldn't be so quick to ascribe "glee" to the Almighty in those situations. Calling for God to kill off people like Ragsdale reminds me of something I heard an old preacher say: "Don't pray to God for justice; it'll be the worst thing you ever get."

Well, sure, if you go before Crom and you can't answer the riddle of steel...

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." --Revelation 21:1-8

Hey, there's no riddle of steel in there! :-)