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Lisa Marie Presley was devastated when her solely son, Benjamin Keough, died at the age of 27 in 2020.
We now understand how deeply she grieved.
In “From Right here to the Nice Unknown,” a brand new memoir by the late Presley, completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, the pair write that Presley saved her son “in the home with us as an alternative of maintaining him on the morgue.”
“They instructed us that if we might are inclined to the physique, we might have him at residence, so she saved him in our home for some time on dry ice,” wrote Keough, who used tapes of her mom sharing her reminiscences to complete the e-book. “It was actually necessary for my mother to have ample time to say goodbye to him, the identical means she’d performed together with her dad. And I’d go and sit in there with him.”
Presley, the one baby of the legendary Elvis Presley, was 9 years outdated when he died following an obvious coronary heart assault at age 42 in 1977. The youthful Presley died in January 2023 of issues from prior weight loss surgery on the age of 54.
Presley is quoted in her memoir as explaining that her home had “a separate casitas bed room,” the place she saved her son, whom she known as “Ben Ben,” after he died.
“There is no such thing as a legislation within the state of California to bury somebody instantly. I discovered a really empathetic funeral residence proprietor,” Presley explains within the e-book. “I instructed her that having my dad in the home after he died was extremely useful as a result of I might go and spend time with him and speak to him. She mentioned, ‘Effectively carry Ben Ben to you. You’ll be able to have him there.’”
Presley defined that the room the place she saved his physique needed to be maintained at 55 levels. She wrote that she felt “lucky that there was a means that I might nonetheless dad or mum him, delay it a bit longer in order that I might develop into okay with laying him to relaxation.”
Each Presley and her son at the moment are buried at Graceland the place her father can be interred.