Death
The card reveals its meaning.
"Choose" is an interesting word. It comes to us from the Old English ceosan, which, among the synonyms you would expect, also means to "test, taste, and try." (This is from etymonline.com, of course). The Proto-Indo-European root of "choose" is *geus: "to taste, to choose." Geus reappears in words like "gusto" and "disgust." All of which raises the question: What is the relation of "tasting" to "choosing"? Don't we taste a food before we choose to eat it?
Not exactly. We choose to taste a particular food based on its appearance, smell, and often, someone's recommendation. But are we responsible for the consequences of our choices when appearances are often deceiving, and the people making the recommendations are often ignorant or even wicked?
And there's the problem of symbols...