Death

Death to me is a very scary event and I never can deal with it peacefully. It definitely signifies a loss of something very precious that really aches.
Now if one loses someone special, there may never be a replacement for this person but over-time one learns to live without this person in your life and so life does change but it may take time and there is a period of loss and mourning.

The Death card seems to talk of a loss that may be painful or that which may take some time to deal with. It may ask for a preparation of the mind to deal with a loss so detachment is called for.

It is possible that this change may not be acceptable to start with and may be forced rather than chosen. It may be caused by someone else or within because of your detachment to something. We are all so very attached to our families, friends, jobs, the basics and the luxuries, to our egos and perceptions, to the place and the environment that letting go is never easy.

I don't see death as a happy card but more a card that asks to say "This too shall pass". It has a very strong spiritual inclination too and seems to remind us that we came from the ashes and to the ashes we shall return and that in the bigger picture everything we see and believe is very miniscule.
When one may be blowing a situation up or exaggerating, the death card could be a sarcastic nudge at our naive thoughts and actions, it may call for a detachment and to step away from the situation to understand it better, it may ask to end something and let go, it may indicate a period of pain or difficulty or a change of place or situation.

Death can never be pleasant to one who suffers it but there is always a life-after and sometimes only death can give you a new lease of life as we are too cowardly to let go.