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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2022, 05:23:08 PM »
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    • I was thinking it had more to do with putrefaction setting in more quickly after prolonged illness.  I suspect that heart beat was a first Modernist step toward where we’re at now with brain death.  Traditional Thomistic theology would caution against using organ function as a criterion because it’s more about the presence of the animal soul, which is tied to putrefaction.  I don’t buy heart beat or brain death.  While they may be signs to a point, I don’t hold them to be definitive.  We have so many examples even in natural science of people being brain dead or having had their hearts stopped and then later coming back around.
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    Offline Emile

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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #16 on: May 23, 2022, 05:35:50 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on May 23, 2022, 05:23:08 PM
    I was thinking it had more to do with putrefaction setting in more quickly after prolonged illness.  I suspect that heart beat was a first Modernist step toward where we’re at now with brain death.  Traditional Thomistic theology would caution against using organ function as a criterion because it’s more about the presence of the animal soul, which is tied to putrefaction.  I don’t buy heart beat or brain death.  While they may be signs to a point, I don’t hold them to be definitive.  We have so many examples even in natural science of people being brain dead or having had their hearts stopped and then later coming back around.
    Yes, I've long found it interesting how many mistaken declarations of death there have been, even in modern times.
    (just a few of many cases, the last one is particularly horrible)

    https://nypost.com/2020/12/01/miracle-baby-found-alive-in-mexican-morgue-has-died/

    https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/woman-declared-dead-found-alive-in-morgue-freezer/507-570517003

    https://www.businessinsider.in/a-woman-was-allegedly-frozen-alive-in-a-morgue-after-being-declared-dead-and-her-family-is-suing-the-hospital/articleshow/33203121.cms

    Makes a 3-day wake sound like a very prudent practice.
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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #17 on: May 23, 2022, 06:29:24 PM »
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    • Quote from: Emile on May 23, 2022, 05:35:50 PM
    Yes, I've long found it interesting how many mistaken declarations of death there have been, even in modern times.
    (just a few of many cases, the last one is particularly horrible)

    https://nypost.com/2020/12/01/miracle-baby-found-alive-in-mexican-morgue-has-died/

    https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/woman-declared-dead-found-alive-in-morgue-freezer/507-570517003

    https://www.businessinsider.in/a-woman-was-allegedly-frozen-alive-in-a-morgue-after-being-declared-dead-and-her-family-is-suing-the-hospital/articleshow/33203121.cms

    Makes a 3-day wake sound like a very prudent practice.

    If I'm understanding correctly, the traditional practice, before embalming, was to have a three-day interval, to be able to observe putrefaction having set in.  Once that happens, there's no going back.

    And nobody survives embalming.
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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #18 on: May 23, 2022, 07:57:48 PM »
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    • It seems they can't receive it unless they have use of their  faculties.

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    [color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]“The priests should remember that the sacrament of holy oil, called [/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]euchelaeon[/color][color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)], was instituted by Christ as a heavenly medicine for the health of the body as well as that of the soul. Accordingly it is to be given only to the sick at the time they desire it and while they are still in possession of their faculties. 
    Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo
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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #19 on: May 23, 2022, 10:26:22 PM »
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    • Quote from: Cryptinox on May 23, 2022, 07:57:48 PM
    It seems they can't receive it unless they have use of their  faculties.
    So does this rule out everyone who is unconscious or in a coma?
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #20 on: May 23, 2022, 10:34:50 PM »
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    • Quote from: Cryptinox on May 23, 2022, 07:57:48 PM
    It seems they can't receive it unless they have use of their  faculties.

    Absolutely incorrect.  You really have to stop posting stuff out of context.

    That passage you cite is a quotation from the Greek schismatic practice and not the pope’s teaching.  He’s going through all their practices and critiquing what must be changed in order for them to re-enter Communion with the Holy See.  These Greeks actually had a more Novus Ordite anointing of the sick perspective on it, which the pope criticized.
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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #21 on: May 24, 2022, 04:18:59 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on May 23, 2022, 10:34:50 PM
    Absolutely incorrect.  You really have to stop posting stuff out of context.

    That passage you cite is a quotation from the Greek schismatic practice and not the pope’s teaching.  He’s going through all their practices and critiquing what must be changed in order for them to re-enter Communion with the Holy See.  These Greeks actually had a more Novus Ordite anointing of the sick perspective on it, which the pope criticized.
    Benedict XIV also says
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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #22 on: May 24, 2022, 05:43:09 PM »
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    • Breathing stops before cardiac function ceases. The electrical activity of the heart can go on for a while after breathing stops
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: How long after apparent death may one receive Extreme Unction?
    « Reply #23 on: May 24, 2022, 05:56:16 PM »
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    • Quote from: Cryptinox on May 24, 2022, 04:18:59 PM
    Benedict XIV also says

    And yet you persist in taking things out of context.
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