SUPREME COURT: JUSTICE SCALIA DEATH AND SCOTUS CHANGES

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On thing I read, which I found interesting. They said a Priest came to perform Last Rites (consider it a last Confession) over his dead body. Now, I realize I have not been a Catholic in a while, but it was always my understanding they were done JUST before death..last confession, as it were, so you can die peacefully and without guilt or sin. ANy current Catholics out there? I know Google is my friend, but lets face it, it is late, I am stressed and do not feel like chatting with Google. So sue me.

Last rites ARE for the living but it does raise some question on how someone near death could recite an Act of Contrition. Anyway, there is some thought, depending on who you talk to, that the soul lingers in the body until rigor mortis sets in so maybe that's how some priests get by in delivering last rites to someone who has already passed but it would have to be done in a very timely fashion. Having said all that, I am a lapsed Catholic and catechism was a looooong time ago so I could be wrong.