[Augustine23402]

The last rites (traditionally called ‘Extreme Unction’) can be administered as often as needed. If someone does recover after these are administered, they would not ‘carry over’ until the person actually does die. They need to be administered each time a person is in imminent danger of death. Extreme Unction both forgives sins (assuming, of course, the person is repentant), and in this way is like a ‘final confession’, and also is a ceremony in which physical healing is sought (James 5:14-15). The latter is not unheard of.

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[D.L.]

I am not very knowledgable about the Catholic faith and was wondering about Last Rites. If someone is administered Last Rites because they are believed to be dying, but then recover, are those Last Rites “good” for when they do die? Or do Last Rites need to be administered again?

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[Ramiro C.]

In the early 1960s, the Catholic Church renamed this sacrament to Anointing of the Sick, to emphasize that it is for all who are ill, or facing a hazard such as surgery. A person may receive it as many times as needed. Previously, priests were often called out when patients were unconscious and near death, so that they could no longer benefit from the comforting and strengthening the sacrament could have given them.

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[C.J.L.]

While the medical profession deals with the physical well-being of patients, this sacrament ministers to their spiritual well-being by addressing the sense of fear and isolation felt by those seriously ill or dying. Christians are always invited to hopeful and faith-filled understanding of suffering, which is seen as an association with the Passion of Christ. The sacrament is intended to be an opportunity for special closeness with God, to remind suffering patients of God’s love and to reinforce one’s faith and hope. One is never required to receive it, though some older Catholics may believe that.

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[tom]

‘Last Rites’ is not one,single ritual prayed at the end of the person’s life. It can involve the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, or the distribution of Holy Communion. What ritual is actually done depends upon the actual circumstance of the person.

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