>>281498375
that was a trick of the shinigami to make humans that received a death note think there might be some kind of third place they could wiggle their way into, or otherwise think that using the death note would spare them from an eternity in hell no matter how much evil they did, and that using the death note to do good could not be rewarded with an eternity in heaven
all humans, without exception, when they die, cease to be, and can never be brought back.