Lisa Marie Presley kept son Benjamins body at home for 2 months after his death

Lisa Marie Presley had a difficult time letting go of her son Benjamin after he died by suicide at age 27 in 2020.The late 54-year-old wrote in her posthumous memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” that she kept Benjamin’s body on dry ice at her home in Los Angeles for two months after his death.“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,” wrote Presley, who died in January 2023.The only child of Elvis Presley said that she couldn’t decide if she wanted Benjamin to be buried in Hawaii or at the King of Rock and Roll’s Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee.“I felt so fortunate that there was a way that I could still parent him, delay it a bit longer so that I could become okay with laying him to rest,” she wrote, adding that Benjamin’s body was in a room kept at 55 degrees at all times.Riley Keough, Presley’s daughter who finished her mom’s memoir, revealed that the pair decided to get tattoos that matched the ones Benjamin had.

So, they invited a tattoo artist over to see the ink on Benjamin’s body in person.“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,” Riley, 35, wrote in the book.“I’ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,” she added.The “Daisy Jones & the Six” star said that eventually they “got this vibe” from her late brother that he didn’t want his body in Presley’s house anymore.“‘Guys,’ he seemed to be saying, ‘This is getting weird,'” Riley recalled.“Even my mom said that she could feel him talking to her, saying, ‘This is insane, Mom, what are you doing? What the f–k.'”But as Riley noted, it was “really important” for Presley to “have ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she’d done with her dad.” Presley was 9 ye...