> That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Why shouldn't he suffer as much as he would have? Why does someone else, through an immoral action, get to determine that someone else should suffer longer in purgatory? (And if it not they who determine it, but God, then they at least "cause" or influence it.) See the [parable of the bridesmaids](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25&version=DRA), which I've cited before. God beseeches us to always be ready, because none of us know the day or the hour. It is not the decision of some third party determines our afterlife; we alone determine that, by virtue of the state of grace (or lack thereof) we allow ourselves to be in at any given moment. And of course, if we sin, and are immediately repentant, but die on our way to confession, God sees that we made a perfect act of contrition, *which includes* an intention to confess at the earliest opportunity, and so we may enter into His kingdom *despite* this third party's intervention. @Chiro