Confessions of a confession addict

I answered a question on Yahoo! Answers and decided it was a topic that I needed to address further. The asker was scared that if he didn't confess his sins enough, then he might die with unconfessed sin and end up in Hell. For some reason, a lot of people (including myself at one point in time), think that if you don't confess your sins, then they are still "on" you and they will drag you down into the eternal pit of fire. Here's my response: