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No it doesn’t. Coco doesn’t pick the jellyfish because she loves life so much, a jellyfish doesn’t do very much “living”, it’s because she is scared of death. We don’t know too much about Maya’s opinion on death, other than brief suicidal ideation in the bathroom. It doesn’t seem like Maya “values death” very much beyond recognizing its utility as a potential end to her problems. Maya’s wish is not to die, it’s to be alone, and deeper down she wishes she didn’t wish to be alone, to be someone who actually wants to be social. She doesn’t hate life itself.
The antithesis comes from the fact that Maya takes life for granted and wastes her time, and Coco is scared of life’s fleeting and fragile nature, so she feels compelled to use her time in a worthwhile way. That doesn’t mean every single one of their aspects are opposites, in fact they are similar in that their unhealthy view of how to spend time negatively affects their mental state. Maya is obvious in this regard, but Coco lives under constant stress to not “waste time” which results in her feeling huge pressure, and makes her liable to snap sometimes, like holding her sister out of a window. If they were simply opposites, Coco would’ve written dog as her answer.