I have a question about purgatory. I know some of this is just speculation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the only thing dogmatically defined about purgatory is that it's a middle state where souls go who can't yet enter heaven and prayers for the dead help these souls. From book and sermons I've listened to over the years it seems many theologians and saints describe two aspects of purgatory. First, God's justice where the soul experiences temporal punishments to make satisfaction to God's justice. Second, God's mercy is at work cleansing or purifying the soul from the stain and attachment to sin. Some theologians have said that the intensity of the pain is related to the amount of sins which have offended God and the amount of time spent suffering depends on how attached the soul is to sin inorder to heal it. My difficulty comes with plenary indulgences which remove all temporal punishment. At first I thought if the soul died still attached to certain sins but received a plenary indulgence how could it go straight to heaven? The indulgences may satisfy God's justice but how would this remove all attachment to sin instantaneously? Then I remembered that in order to actually receive the full plenary indulgences you must be completely detached from sin. Is this correct? If so, if someone who still had attachments to certain sins received a plenary indulgence on their death bed they would still go to purgatory right? They would only receive a partial indulgences correct? My point is, it would seem like the only way to receive a full plenary indulgences and go directly to heaven is if you literally had no attachments to sin, which would be extremely difficult. In conclusion, most people don't go straight to heaven just because they've received the apostolic blessing right?

You could be right, I don't know - all I know is the power of that sacrament is like that of none of the other sacraments.

I do not see how in this life we can ever be altogether detached from sin when we are born with the inclination to sin built into us as a part of us. 

You could be right, I don't know - all I know is the power of that sacrament is like that of none of the other sacraments.

 I do not see how in this life we can ever be altogether detached from sin when we are born with the inclination to sin built into us as a part of us. 

"Perfectly disposed" to me, means the same as being perfectly disposed for confession. Which is to say we are supposed to have contrition for our sins, the firm purpose of amendment with the resolve to never commit the sin(s) again, and the firm resolve to avoid the near occasion of sin. That is what being perfectly disposed means.

Being tempted to sin, be it habitual sin or some other sins, is not attachment to sin - unless one gives into the temptations then sins - otherwise, plan on being tempted to those sins your whole life, even until your last breath. 

And if you were successful in resisting those temptations till your death bed, receive the Last Rites (confession,communion, extreme unction) with the proper disposition i.e. being perfectly disposed, purgatory can be bypassed, you go straight to heaven. Then you can rejoice that you will be free from and never be tempted to those sins ever again.

Where am I mistaken here?