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Thanks for the references

IIRC, I think it was with the NA Martyrs, converts dying soon after baptism was so common that some tribes actually thought that baptism was killing them..and that led them to persecuting the missionaries

We know with absolute certainty that Baptism of Water does exist, whether deathbed or sooner.

Whether BoD does or does not exist is known with absolute certainty only by God (maybe by the angels and saints too) and of course by those particular affected souls at a point-of-no-return, as it were.

Note that I didn't claim that BoD does not exist. But as a baptized Catholic, of what business of mine is it to insist that it does? With regard to the souls of others, do I have the right to tell the unbaptized that it's no big deal, just be nice and all will be fine?

When considering points of contention w.r.t. the eternal teachings of the One True Faith, always ask cui bono, if only cui bono in this mortal life in this vale of tears. In that, the logic is unavoidable, and the honest answer might shock like a bucket of ice water.

https://archive.org/details/saintamongsavage0000talb
Saint among savages; the life of Isaac Jogues by Francis Talbot, S.J.

pg 130
"We had no special plan to go to this village of St. Thomas rather than to any other," they remarked, "but since we had accepted what company the savages offered, and since we followed them thither, there is no doubt but that we arrived where God was leading us for the salvation of a predestined soul which awaited nothing but our arrival in order to die in all its earthly miseries." They had finished their supper and were conversing with their hosts, when a young man entered and asked the Blackrobes to visit his mother who was sick. "We go thither," they exclaim, "and find the poor woman in the last extremities. She was instructed, and happily received, with the Faith, the grace of Baptism. Shortly after that, she beheld herself in the glory of heaven. In that whole village there was only that one who had need of our help."
From St. Thomas, the deep-dug trails led to farther Petun towns. They did not linger long in these places except to visit any who were ill. They had the joy of baptizing some few children and some adults who were near death.

pg 130-131
In the second week of November they to Ehwae, the capital village, which they dedicated to Sts. Pierre et Paul. They pushed through the stockade and into one of the cabins. There they found a child of five years sick unto death. His parents, of the Neutral nation, were forced by starvation to come to Ehwae and beg food. When Jogues and Garnier learned that the life of the child had been despaired of for several days, they exclaimed: "Out of 45 or 50 cabins, without intending it, we first visited the cabin in which this little stranger was. We baptized him, and straightaway he was freed from his exile and was happy in the land of his new nativity. Here are the first fruits of this nation of the Neutrals, and this child was the first one of them to be sprinkled by the blood of Jesus Christ."

pg 131
"There is hardly any corn in this village of Ehwae," the missioners reported, "and nevertheless, almost every day some Attiwandarons arrive, bands of men, women, and children, all pale and disfigured, whom the famine drives hither. Fleeing from the famine, they here find death; rather, here they find a blessed life, for we see to it that not one dies without baptism. Among these people was a little child about one year old, which looked more like a monster than a human being. It was happily baptized. God preserved its life only by a miracle, it would seem, so that it might be washed in the blood of Jesus Christ and might bless His mercies forever."