Death in the South

After my father’s death in June 2016, I tried to unpack and digest why he died and what this means for me as a 20-year-old moving through my own life. I found an overall lack of access to conversations about death, especially in the Bible Belt. Because of this, I explored writing and sparking conversations about death.

 

A Greener Eternity: The growth of Green burial

(Photo/Maggie Holland)

(Photo/Maggie Holland)

In the rush to mitigate the aggressive somersaults humanity is taking toward irreversible global warming, everything is reinvented in an eco-friendly way -- even death.

The inbetween: Exploring death in the South

(Photo/Maggie Holland)

(Photo/Maggie Holland)

This multimedia story explores death in its many forms, the evolution of death in the South and how to meet death gracefully without getting the breath knocked out of you.

 

 

this is what i know about death

(Photo/Maggie Holland)

(Photo/Maggie Holland)

This personal prose unpacks how death and grief moved through my life by way of movies, art, mythology and poetry.