Death is a tough card because it involves three things:
1) Loss--the actual death of something
2) Mourning--going through a bleak time of coming to terms with that loss
3) The transformation/rebirth part where something new fills that empty spot and starts to grow there.
Standing for someone's emotional nature, I'd say that, like the phoenix, they're remarkably adept at restoring their emotional selves from the ashes. But such restoration doesn't come easily--we forget that to rise from the ashes, the phoenix must first, dramatically, burn in the fire. So they feel loss deeply and painfully, but, unlike some, they can recover, again and again, from it.
That's a pretty amazing combination, actually. Most people who invest emotions that deeply into something, and feel the loss that painfully never fully recover. This is someone who doesn't, I think, numb or protect themselves after they've been hurt, nor give up. But it is also some one who probably doesn't invest their emotions lightly. First, because they can't, like Scorpio, they feel deeply when they feel. And second, because, if anything happens, they're going to go through painful feelings of loss and mourning. There's no shallow shugging of shoulders and saying, "Oh well, easy come, easy go!".
If a romantic relationship, say, comes to an end, then I'd guess that this type of person would feel like their whole world had gone up in flames, all burned to ash. They would, eventually, rise up again and fall as deeply if differently in love with someone else...but there'd be a long mourning period among the ashes first.
