Someone has been on your mind. Not constantly — just often enough that you have noticed the pattern, and maybe been annoyed by it. Whoever it is, the mind does not repeat a person for no reason: something between you is unfinished, or something in you is unfinished and they are the nearest name for it. Hold them in mind and turn a card.
Death rarely indicates physical death. It represents the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. Something must end for something new to be born. Embrace the change.
Read against this connection, Death puts the weight on transformation and ending. Read against a person, a card describes the pull rather than the person. This is the honest limit and the useful one: nothing here can tell you what they are feeling. It can tell you what the connection is doing in you, which is the part you can act on.
The same card has an opposite face, and it is worth holding both. Reversed, may indicate resistance to necessary changes or incomplete transformation. Let go to be reborn.
So sit with the question you arrived with — Why is this person still taking up room? — and notice which of the two readings you flinched at. That flinch is the reading. It is the one piece of this page that came from you rather than from the deck, and it is the only piece that can change anything.
Don't fear transformations. Every ending is a new beginning in disguise.
We will not tell you they are thinking of you tonight. Nobody can know that. What a card can do is show you what you are actually holding on to — and that is the part that decides what happens next.