extreme unction

If I were diagnosing democracy right now in America, it is in a state of extreme unction.

“Did you call a priest to give him extreme unction?” he asked.

Accepting it, he joked: "I knew that being made a Saoi... is extreme unction; it is a final anointment - Aosdana's last rites."

The movie is a dewy valentine in funeral time, a last rite administered with extreme unction.

Another woman grinned with pride when she correctly answered that “extreme unction” is what Catholics used to call the Anointing of the Sick, part of the Last Rites.