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'''10. When should we receive Extreme Unction? '''

We should receive it if possible, whilst we are still in our senses, and after having received the Viaticum.

'''11. How often can Extreme Unction be received? '''

In each dangerous illness it can be received once; it can, however, be repeated on relapse into danger that had passed.

'''12. Is it not unreasonable for a person, from fear of death, to defer, or even neglect, the receiving of Extreme Unction until he is at the point of death? '''

Certainly; for,

1. Extreme Unction has been instituted even for the health of the body;

2. The sick person will recover more probably, if he employs in time the remedy ordained by God, than if he waits until he cannot recover except by a miracle; and

3. If his sickness be mortal, what should he wish for more earnestly than to die happy, which this Holy Sacrament gives him grace to do?

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