Can't teleport to checkpoint/bench in other scene upon death. please help me.

hello there! ive got a problem with a hollow knight-like bench system.
upon dying, i want the player to respawn in another scene at a certain point.

which is an object with a set position thisPosition to which this script is attached:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class Bench_Home : MonoBehaviour {
    
    private CharacterController2D controller;
    public GameManagerScript gm;
    static string Load_Home = "Home";
    private GameObject player;
    public Vector2 thisPosition;

    void Start() {
        //WICHTIG!!! reference so machen, um auch bei scene change die reference zum script zu behalten   
        if (gm == null) {
            gm = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").gameObject.GetComponent<GameManagerScript>();
        }
        if (controller == null) { 
            controller = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").GetComponent<CharacterController2D>(); 
        }
        if (player == null) {
            player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
        }
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player")) {
            gm.lastBenchPos = thisPosition;
        }
    }

    void Update() {      
        thisPosition = new Vector2(-64.01f, -16.01f);
        //check for last bench position
            if (controller.respawned && thisPosition == gm.lastBenchPos) {
                LoadScene(Load_Home);
                Physics2D.IgnoreLayerCollision(7, 8, false);
                Physics2D.IgnoreLayerCollision(7, 9, false);
                player.transform.position = thisPosition;
                //check for child object and enable
                controller.rb.gravityScale = 3;
                                
            }
            controller.respawned = false;
    }


    public static void LoadScene(string SceneNameToLoad) {
        PendingPreviousScene = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name;
        SceneManager.sceneLoaded += ActivatorAndUnloader;
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneNameToLoad, LoadSceneMode.Additive);
        Debug.Log("Home was loaded");
    }

    static string PendingPreviousScene;
    static void ActivatorAndUnloader(Scene scene, LoadSceneMode mode) {
        SceneManager.sceneLoaded -= ActivatorAndUnloader;
        SceneManager.SetActiveScene(scene);
        SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync(PendingPreviousScene);
    }


}

when i instantiate my player, i am spawned at the location of gm.lastBenchPos
and upon interaction with another “bench”, i want gm.lastBenchPos to update.

in the inspector nothing happens, but if i put a Debug.Log(lastBenchPos) into Update() of GameManagerScript, the values are changing.

GameManagerScript is attached to the Player(Clone) created from prefab.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class GameManagerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Vector2 lastCheckPointPos;
    public Vector2 lastBenchPos;
}

i need the values to be able to fullfil the if-statement of the other bench, which has different coordinates.

and make it able for the player to teleport there upon death.

im trying to make this work since 3 full days and im slowly descending into madness because i need to have this figured out. please help me.

thanks in advance!

oh i forgot. when dying, the player returns to the first “bench” but never to the 2nd, even when having interacted with the 2nd bench.

and upon interacting with the 2nd bench and dying after it, the if-condition doesnt seem to be fulfilled.