Defense against implosion

[Zevox]

If [Death] was a requirement for Death Ward to protect you, I have a simple question: Why doesn't it say exactly that?

Because spell descriptions never explicitly refer to tags. Spells that grant energy resistance don't say they grant resistance to spells with the [Fire], [Electricity], etc descriptors either, but that doesn't change that spells without those descriptors won't qualify for their effects.

Zevox