For two months following her deceased son’s death, Lisa Marie Presley kept his body at home.
In her posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, released on Tuesday (10.08,) some two years after she died in January 2023 at the age of 54, the daughter of the late Elvis Presley revealed that she didn’t bury her son Benjamin Keough until two months after he died by suicide in July 2020, at the age of 27.
Completed by Lisa Marie’s actress daughter Riley Keough, Elvis’ only child explained that she couldn’t decide whether to bury her son in Hawaii or at her late father’s Graceland estate in Memphis, writing:
“My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months. There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately.” “I found a very empathetic funeral home owner… She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben to you.'”
Along with packed ice, Lisa Marie kept the room at a certain temperature to preserve her son’s body and “got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there”. The singer-songwriter subsequently invited a tattoo artist to look at Benjamin’s body so he could give her and Riley tattoos that matched their relative’s ink.
About the rather odd experience Riley wrote “Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at the body of her dead son, which happened to be right next to us in the casitas. I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five” and admitted “I think it would scare the living f**king p**s out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me.”
According to Keough, following the tattoo day, everyone “got the vibe” that it was time to bury Benjamin who was eventually laid to rest alongside Elvis at Graceland. Lisa Marie was later buried alongside them both.
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Author: Al Denté
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