The Sacrament of "Anointing the Sick" is also known as "Extreme Unction" or "The Last Rites."
This sacrament is traditionally administered to a Catholic who is in immediate danger of death or who is actually dying. In the case of terminally ill people, it is encouraged to ask for the sacrament while the person is still lucid so that they might take comfort and strength from the sacrament and have a chance to confess their sins; too often people wait until a person is comatose or even dead before calling a priest, thus depriving the person of choice graces. The sacrament can be administered multiple times, even for the same illness as circumstances change, so you do not need to wait until the last minute to call a priest. If a person has died, still call a priest; the exact moment the soul leaves the body is not a precise science and so a priest may conditionally administer the sacrament to one already declared legally dead (within a reasonable time elapse from the time of death). Among the graces the sacrament gives for preparing the soul for death, it may also give the grace of a recovery, that sometimes is extremely sudden or miraculous.
A priest may only administer this sacrament to a Catholic, if a person in danger of death who is not a Catholic suddenly wishes to receive this sacrament, they must first be baptized and then they may receive the Anointing.
The last rites are now known as the Annointing of the Sick, and isn't necessarily done at the deathbed.
Roman Catholic Answer"Last Rites" was a popular term, not a Church term, for a series of sacraments and blessing that were done immediately before death including: Confession followed by the Apostolic Indulgence or Last Blessing: a Plenary Indulgence issued to the dying person by the Apostolic See. Then the person receives the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, which used to be called Extreme Unction (and is sometimes mistakeningly referred to, itself, as "last rites") and then is given the Holy Eucharist (Holy Communion).The "Last Rites" has never been a term used by the Catholic Church. It was common shorthand expression used by the Laity (and some priests) to refer to any or all of the following: Confession, Extreme Unction (now called Anointing of the Sick), Holy Communion (Viaticum or Communion for the dying), and the Apostolic Blessing. Those three sacraments - Penance, Anointing, and Communion have all been called "Last Rites" or the whole of them together, plus the Apostolic Blessing. The fact that it is rarely used anymore by the laity does not mean that it used to be a Catholic term.
(in the Christian Church) rites administered to a person who is about to die.
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The sacrament is now known as the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick and it can only be administered by a priest.
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