Lisa Marie Presley Kept Dead Son’s Body On Dry Ice For 2 Months After Death
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In her posthumous memoir, the late musician shared that her family took a similar approach while grieving the death of her father, Elvis Presley.
A posthumous memoir written by Lisa Marie Presley is bringing new details on how the late musician dealt with the 2020 death of her son, Benjamin Keough, to light.
In “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Presley said she kept Benjamin Keough’s body on dry ice for two months at her Los Angeles home after he died by suicide at age 27.
“My house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months,” Presley wrote in the book, according to NBC News. “There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately.”
She also shared that her family took a similar approach while grieving the 1977 death of her father, music legend Elvis Presley.
“I found a very empathic funeral home owner. I told her that having my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him,” she wrote. “She said, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben to you. You can have him there.’”