Greek Mythology Vague Blogging
This is the most pedantic of pedantic arguments, but -
Narcissus didn’t fall in love with himself. He’d never seen his own reflection before - he fell in love with a stranger.
As far as Narcissus understood things, he pined for a beautiful stranger and died from the pain of never being able to reach him.
He didn’t die from selfishness and self-absorption, he died because he didn’t know who he was, because fundamental aspects of himself had been hidden in a misguided attempt to protect him.