Lisa Marie Presley kept son on ice for two months before funeral, new memoir reveals

According to a recent memoir, Lisa Marie Presley reportedly preserved her deceased son using dry ice for two months before she organized his funeral.

Presley, the sole offspring of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, chose to keep her 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, at home with her following his tragic suicide in 2020, instead of leaving him at the funeral home.

In a memoir that Presley began and her daughter, actress Riley Keough, completed, it is revealed that Benjamin's body was preserved on dry ice. This decision was made because California does not have specific regulations regarding the timeline for handling deceased bodies.

Daisy Jones & the Six actress Keough shared, "It was crucial for my mom to have enough time to bid farewell to him, just like she did with her father."

"And I would join him there," she wrote, according to NBC, which is Sky News' US partner network.

Presley expressed, "I believe that having their son in that situation would terrify anyone else to no end. But not me."

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The memoir continues by sharing how Presley and her daughter chose to have Benjamin's name tattooed in the same spots where he had previously inked their names: on Keough's collarbone and on Presley's hand.

"Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this unfortunate tattoo artist to examine the body of her deceased son, who was located right next to us in the casitas. I’ve experienced some truly bizarre moments in my life, but this one definitely ranks among the top five," Keough noted.

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