An Eastern Illinois University student passed away of natural causes Thursday in Taylor Hall, according to Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers.
University police arrived at freshman public health...
My Grandma Schumer was a tough old lady, nothing like the rest of them. I always said she was like a stereotypical British woman: she didn’t show emotion but you knew she loved you.
When Michelle Matteson first began researching death doulas, or end-of-life doulas, it was because her mother shared her own experience of being a child aware of and present around the death of a neighbor.
Matteson’s...
As young vibrant college students, we don’t usually think about death on a regular basis as anything more than an abstract concept.
For the most part we aren’t writing wills, choosing caskets or thinking...
Larry Ankenbrand, a retired KSS professor, strokes the name slate belonging to his wife, Maureen, Sunday afternoon at the Commemorative Courtyard.
Ankenbrand said his wife died several months ago, so...
A lot of horrible things happened to me these past couple weeks.
On April 29 at night, my mother's birthday, I got a call from my father--a call I've been dreading since the beginning of the Spring...
On the Tuesday of Thanksgiving break, I received some heartbreaking news. My grandmother had suffered a massive stroke and was being flown from her sleepy Arkansas home to Memphis for treatment.
My...
I was not Byron Edingburg’s best friend, nor was I his favored companion. I was more like his frequent associate my sophomore year.
I had seen him around on campus passing by, heading towards Old...
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior tennis player Luisa Renovales Salazar hits the tennis ball with her racket at the Darling Courts at the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston, ILL.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tennis_01_O-1-e1741807434552-1200x670.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois University baseball's hitting coach and recruiting coordinator Mike Pugliese urges players on the team to increase their effort after a slow start to its pregame routine at the team's first intrasquad scrimmage of the season at O'Brien Field on Jan. 31, 2025.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BB_02_O-1-e1741909628540-1200x702.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior right-handed pitcher Tyler Conklin pitching in the Eastern Illinois University baseball team's intrasquad scrimmage at O'Brien Field in Charleston, Illinois on Jan. 31.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TC_01_O-e1741567955534-1200x669.jpg)
![E[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois softball freshman utility player Abbi Hatton deciding to throw the softball to home plate in a fielding drill during softball practice at the field house in Groniger arena on Tuesday Feb. 11.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SB_03_O-e1741208880750-1-e1741209739187-1200x815.jpg)
![The Weeklings lead guitarist John Merjave [Left] and guitarist Bob Burger [Right] perform "I Am the Walrus" at The Weeklings Beatles Bash concert in the Dvorak Concert Hall on Saturday.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WL_01_O-1200x900.jpg)
![The team listens as its captain Patience Cox [Number 25] lectures to them about what's appropriate to talk about through practice during "The Wolves" on Thursday, March 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Doudna Fine Arts Center in Charleston, Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WolvesPre-12-1200x800.jpg)
