So someone help me out here (I’m not Catholic and I went to public schools) - he was alive enough to complain about not being given last rights, so why did he need last rights?
Extreme unction is performed when it is feared that death is imminent.
It is not necessary for it to be certain. And one need not actually be in the process of dying.
Regards,
“Last rites” aren’t just for those at death’s door. The sacrament can be administered to a Catholic realistically in danger of death from disease or old age. There must be some genuine and material possibility of dying (from illness) before the sacrament can be given, but it’s not necessary to delay the sacrament till all hope of recovery is abandoned. An old person with a bad case of the flu would be a good candidate. Someone about to undergo life-saving surgery (heart bypass or liver transplant) would be a candidate. Someone about to receive a knee replacement, probably not. Soldiers going into battle, definitely not (unless already seriously wounded, I suppose).