\nLisa Marie Presley explained in her memoir why she decided to keep the body of her son Benjamin in her home for two months following his death.\n
The late daughter of Elvis Presley made the revelation in her memoir, which was published posthumously by her daughter, Riley Keough. \u201cThere is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately,\u201d Presley wrote in the book, \u201cFrom Here to the Great Unknown.\u201d\n
\u201cHaving my dad in the house after he died was incredibly helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him,\u201d she continued, per People.\n
\u201cThat was part of why it took so long,\u201d Presley wrote. \u201cI got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there. I think it would scare the living f***ing piss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me.\u201d\n
Benjamin, nicknamed Ben Ben by his family, died by suicide in 2020 when he was 27 years old.\n
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Presley explained, \u201cMy house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months \u2026 I found a very empathic funeral home owner.\u201d\n
She continued, \u201cI 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 said, \u2018We\u2019ll bring Ben Ben [her nickname for her son] to you. You can have him there.\u2019\u201d\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d she wrote.\n
Keough wrote that it was \u201creally important\u201d for her mom to \u201chave ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she\u2019d done with her dad.\u201d\n
The room with Benjamin\u2019s body was reportedly kept at 55 degrees. Keough also related the experience of a tattoo artist coming over so both mother and daughter could get ink that matched Benjamin\u2019s. When the artist, who came to the house, asked if he could see a photo to copy, Lisa Marie allegedly said, \u201cNo, but I can show you.\u201d\n
\u201cLisa 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\u2019ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,\u201d Lisa Marie\u2019s daughter wrote of the experience.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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