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Has anyone been baptized by proxy while living, and if so, what happens? (I’m thinking of particularly old people here, especially)
Not sure that fits into Mormon theology. A living person would normally be baptized to receive the ordinance. But … I love a good theological speculation as much as the next crazy person who thinks about theology all the time 
If we can be baptized for the dead, because the dead are unable to be baptized corporeally, then it would seem a logical step to baptize a living person by-proxy if they could not be baptized for some reason. Perhaps they are tool fragile and ill (really old or sick)? What if someone in an Intensive Care Unit, hooked up to all sorts of machines, had a death-bed conversion and wanted to be baptized?
Interesting concept.
The reason I’m asking this is because in my family tree, there are a couple of people who are borderline “dead”, I know that sounds strange, but it basically means that they’re coming up for the 106 mark. I think they are dead, but it did get me thinking, people must get baptized for very long lived people occasionally not realizing they’re still on this Earth… I remember reading somewhere that the Church transitions people’s records to the “deceased” category in their membership database when they are around that age (110 years old or so). I am talking about all the many people they have in their records that might be inactive and they are not sure about their location. I assume active members are tagged as deceased by ward clerks or something when they die (since the event is known to people keeping records). I would be surprised if the situation you described never happened. With so many million proxy ordinances done, there has to have been some accidental work done for still-living people.
At least it proves that we don’t dig up bodies and baptize them. That’s a plus! 🙄 Old-Timer wrote:At least it proves that we don’t dig up bodies and baptize them. That’s a plus!
🙄 Don’t we?
Oh, I’ve had to explain that one a few times… Actually at least one church – the Mandeans – did baptize the dead, literally and physically!!!
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