Is 'Stream Entry' possible during death in EBT?

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Hello dear friends and respected venerables. I have one question can anybody answer that and cite any sutta if it’s there in EBT…

Is there any example of any person attaining stream entry while dying? I mean either bandits killing him or any kind of violent death…but while dying he/she became stream-enterer. Is there any such example in any sutta?

Thank you in advance everyone. :pray::pray::pray:

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I don’t know about that, but I know that some non-arahant noble ones attaining arahant on deathbed, so perhaps it’s not out of question.

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Yes, Sarakani. (SN55.24)

Now at that time Sarakāni the Sakyan had passed away.
The Buddha declared that he was a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.
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Mahānāma, Sarakāni the Sakyan undertook the training at the time of his death.

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