First off, great question!
This ties into something I talk about a lot, the yes/no paradox in tarot. Honestly, the best readers can handle yes/no questions because they're the clearest and most direct, and usually the least likely to cause harm. Adding extra interpretation sometimes just makes the person asking more anxious. Often it's better to be blunt, like "no, he doesn't love you," than to complicate things and feed paranoia.
That said, a clean yes or no isn't always easy. "Yes" and "no" aren't answers on their own, they're choices about how you read the cards and they open different possible outcomes.
Take Death. Reading it the way you did is normal, but it's not fixed. Death is about transformation, endings and rebirth, shedding old patterns to make room for new starts. Reversed, especially in a question about death, often points to resistance to change or a delay in that cycle. It can mean the process is stalled or being pushed back.
So Death can be a yes for some things and a no for others, yes to new journeys, no to old ones. It's rarely about literal death, more about change. Your job as the reader is to tune into that energy and use your intuition to decide how it reads for the specific question.
