Does anyone know whether the dying John Paul, like a few other modern popes, underwent the ancient rite of tapping his forehead with a small silver hammer?

Now that the Pope has died & been buried, I'd like to resurrect a discussion Lucius & I had last winter about whether Catholic priests at the last rites, and the Pope's camerlengo, or chamberlain, performed the ancient rite of tapping his forehead with a silver hammer to see if he's still alive. The camerlengo also repeats his name 3 times. If he shows any response to the hammering or repeating of his name, then he's not truly dead, and no conclave of cardinals can start picking his successor.

I heard a Vatican spokesman or scholar say on TV that the calling of his name was to take place, but he made no mention of tapping him with the silver hammer -- a rite or routine that I traced here in previous posts all the way back to the Etruscan death demon Charun hitting the deceased with his mallet or hammer to deliver the coup de grace and despatch him into the Afterlife.

The Vatican commentator did say the silver hammer would be used in another rite on John Paul. After he fails to respond to his name, and after he's certified as dead, the camerlengo will remove the papal ring from his finger and, taking up the little silver hammer, smash the ring into tiny pieces. Why? So the magical divine power tnvested in the pope's ring can never be used or abused by anyone else.

A note to you Dan Brown fans, if any such there be at Ancient Worlds: Do any of Dan's books give any clue that he knows anything about REAL mysteries such as this one about the Vatican's use of the silver hammer on a dead pope, let alone its origin in ancient Etruscan funeral rites?