Antidotes To Fear Of Death

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This was a poem written by astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson when she battled with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I find this poem comforting in the midst of the rising fears going around in our ever-changing and unpredictable circumstances of COVID-19. We are after all stardust and knowing how fear can eat away our flesh and presence at the moment, perhaps the antidote to it is to picture swallowing bits of stars into our body, to renew and rejuvenate…