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it has been a long time since i read death note, but i thought it was revealed shortly before the end of light's story, that the reason death note users cant go to heaven or hell, is because there is no heaven or hell, in the death note universe, just oblivion [/bq]
Not exactly. This is only in the manga, but when Ryuuk tells Light he can neither go to heaven nor hell for using the Death Note Light brushes it off saying he was an atheist that didn't believe in that anyway(which doesn't really bode well when he didn't believe the Death Note would work, nor did he believe Shinigami existed and immediately changed his tune when he saw otherwise. Nothing is ever confirmed if there's an afterlife as both the Shinigami and humans are both mortal (Shinigami will all eventually die when the human race dies out and they can't extend their lives by killing them) and when they die they can't return and confirm whether there exists something after they die.
In the anime there's a lot of Christic imagery and even the ending you have Light seeing L's spirit looking down on him.