According to the memoir, Lisa Marie Presley wanted her son “to be home with us instead of in the morgue”
When Benjamin Keough, Lisa Marie Presley‘s only son, passed away aged 27 in 2020, she was inconsolable.
We now understand her intense grieving
In “From Here to the Great Unknown,” a new book by the late Presley completed by her daughter Riley Keough, the pair note that Presley kept her son “in the house with us instead of keeping him at the morgue.”
Keough, who utilized videos of her mother narrating her experiences to complete the book, said, “They told us that if we could tend to the body, we could have him at home, so she kept him in our house for a while on dry ice.” “Like with her dad, my mother saw great significance in having enough time to bid farewell to him. I would also go sit in there with him.
The only child of the great Elvis Presley, Presley was nine years old when he passed away in 1977 suffering an apparently heart attack at age 42. At 54, the younger Presley died in January 2023 from complications from past weight reduction surgery.
Presley is said in her book to have kept her son, whom she referred to as “Ben Ben,” in “a separate casitas bedroom,” where she lived after his death.
“There is no legislation in California allowing instantaneous burial of someone. Presley notes in the book a quite sympathetic funeral parlor proprietor. “I told her it was quite beneficial to have my dad living in the house following his death since I could visit him and have conversations with him.” Well bring Ben Ben to you, she advised. You are welcome to have him there.
Presley clarified that she had to keep the chamber where she kept his corpse at 55 degrees. She reported feeling “fortunate that there was a way I could still parent him, delay it a bit longer so that I could become okay with laying him to rest.”
Presley and her son are now buried at Graceland, where her father also rests.
