Lauren Hill, Who Fought Tumor to Play College Basketball, Dies at 19

Lauren Hill, who played basketball for Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati while contending with an inoperable brain tumor, died on Friday, April 10, 2015 in Cincinnati. She was 19.

This is a moving obituary.




To an Athlete Dying Young by A.E, Housman

Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.