(CNN) — Lisa Marie Presley was devastated when her only son, Benjamin Keough, died in 2020 at the age of 27.
Now we know how much suffering they had to endure.
In a new autobiography of the late Presley, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” completed by his daughter Riley Keough, the two write that Presley “kept his son at home with us rather than leaving him in the morgue.”
“We were told that if we could take care of the body, we could keep it at home, so they kept it in our house for a while on dry ice,” wrote Keough, who recounted her mother’s memories. Used to end a recording while sharing. Book. , “It was very important for my mother to give him enough time to say goodbye, the same way she did with her father. And I will go and sit near him.”
Presley, the only daughter of the legendary Elvis Presley, was nine years old when the singer died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 42. The younger Presley died in January 2023 at the age of 54 due to complications from previous weight loss surgery. years old.
His memoirs reveal that Presley’s home contained “a separate cottage-type bedroom” where he kept his son, whom he called “Ben Ben”, after his death.
“There is no law in the state of California that requires anyone to be buried immediately. “I met a very understanding funeral home owner,” Presley explains in the book. “I told him that having him in the house after my father died was incredibly helpful because I was able to visit him, spend time and talk to him. He said, ‘Okay, bring Ben with you. You can find it there.”
Presley said that the room where he kept the body was to be kept at a temperature of 12.7ºC. She wrote that she felt fortunate that there was a way that I could continue to raise him, just a little longer so that I could accept his burial.
Both Presley and his son are now buried at Graceland, where his father is also buried.
