The five faces of death correspond to five human faces, five ways of facing another person, five relationships. Three of the five are forms of love: friendship (Chapter 3), mother-love (Chapter 4), and romantic love (Chapter 5). The other two are the alternatives to love: hate (Chapter 1) and indifference (Chapter 2). Together, these two make up the “fight-or-flight” response (hate being fight and indifference, flight). The opposite of love is
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