According to a newly published memoir, Lisa Marie Presley retained her deceased son on dry ice for a period of two months prior to establishing arrangements for his funeral.
Presley, the sole offspring of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, chose to keep her 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, at her residence instead of the morgue following his suicide in 2020.
Details from a memoir initiated by Presley and later completed by her daughter, actress Riley Keough, 35, reveal that Benjamin was kept on dry ice due to the absence of laws in California regarding the timeframe for body burial or cremation.
Riley Keough, known for her role in Daisy Jones & the Six, commented: “It was incredibly significant for my mother to have sufficient time to bid farewell to him, akin to how she had done with her father.”
“And I would frequently sit in there with him,” Sky News’ US affiliate, NBC, reported her as saying.
Presley remarked: “I believe it would terrify anyone else to have their son in such a manner. But for me, it was different.”
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The memoir continues to describe how Presley and her daughter opted to get tattoos that mirrored Benjamin’s while his body was present in a room at 55C.
“Lisa Marie Presley had just requested this unfortunate gentleman to observe the remains of her deceased son, who was situated right next to us in the casitas. I’ve experienced an exceedingly bizarre life, but this moment is among the top five,” Keough reflected.
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