Eucharistic Fast and Viaticum

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I think I know the answer to this, but I’d like to check and hear the official reasoning behind it anyway. Suppose I have eaten within the last hour and I am suddenly hit with something that is going to kill me before an hour has passed since I’ve last eaten. Am I still able to receive Viaticum despite having broken the Eucharistic fast, and if so, what says I can?
 
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Let reason and charity prevail! You did not break the fast, as you could not predict the future. Despite what you may or may not have eaten, the fast applies to the observant faithful as the normative practice before celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This is an emergency exception, and “food for the journey” is contained within the so-called last rites.

Do not let your heart be troubled.
 
Yes.

Code of Canon Law #919 §3 " The elderly and those who are suffering from some illness, as well as those who care for them, may receive the blessed Eucharist even if within the preceding hour they have consumed something."

The applicable part -
Can. 919 §1 Whoever is to receive the blessed Eucharist is to abstain for at least one hour before holy communion from all food and drink, with the sole exception of water and medicine.

§2 A priest who, on the same day, celebrates the blessed Eucharist twice or three times may consume something before the second or third celebration, even though there is not an hour’s interval.

§3 The elderly and those who are suffering from some illness, as well as those who care for them, may receive the blessed Eucharist even if within the preceding hour they have consumed something.

So if the sick & elderly can, then if you will expire within the hour even though you’ve eaten (dying on the side of the road and thanks be to Providence a priest happens upon the accident and is carrying the Blessed Sacrament with him) you certainly may receive Viaticum!
 
Neither would you be denied Viaticum on account of having received the Eucharist earlier that day.
 
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