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Trigger warning: This story contains content related to suicide and mental health challenges.   Outside of the newsroom, Daily Egyptian Photographer Jason Isele has been working to promote mental health awareness one wristband at a time.  Advertisement   “I am doing it for a childhood bestie of mine, Dylan Buckner, who died by suicide just...

Abby Schyman knew Dylan Buckner and wants people to understand how he lived, not just how he died.

It’s been over a year since Dylan Buckner died, just months shy of his high school graduation. For his family, the pain is still very raw, but they continue...

For a school and community which had already experienced severe loss, the June 19 death of 2020 Glenbrook North graduate Tim St. John presented more pain.

The scholarship honoring 18-year-old Dylan Buckner, who took his own life during COVID lockdowns, will be awarded to a student who is a "champion for mental health."

Dylan Buckner was an honor student and the star quarterback at Glenbrook North High School in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook. He had friends, good grades and a promising future, but his father believes remote learning made his depression worse.

The parents of three children who died of suicide during the pandemic spoke out Friday on "The Story" about the victims of the oft-unnoticed mental health crisis that has accompanied the contagion and societal restrictions.

After Son Takes His Own Life, Father Warns Against Extended Pandemic Lockdowns NORTHBROOK, Ill.—Dylan Buckner’s bedroom looks like a typical teenager’s room, filled with sports trophies and plastered with posters of football stars. Chris Buckner, Dylan’s father, points to photos and toys of cheetahs, saying Dylan liked the animals because of their speed. He gestures to a large model of a fish, a life-sized replica of the first one he caught with Dylan. Almost everything in the room has ...

The Jan. 7 death by suicide of Glenbrook North High School student Dylan Buckner is just one example of why parents are concerned. Buckner’s father in a Tribune interview said his son’s isolation and lack of school activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to his struggles. “I would argue, and I believe strongly, that Dylan’s death is not going to show up in COVID statistics, and yet absolutely it’s a COVID death,” Chris Buckner said. Las Vegas-area school officials moved ...

Editorial: Across the country, parents are demanding that schools reopen — high schools too. Parents are frustrated with slow bureaucracy over school reopening plans, obstinate teachers unions, pick-and-choose “science” to justify closed buildings.