According to her memoir, Lisa Marie Presley housed her late son’s body in her home for two months.

Lisa Marie Presley’s Heartbreaking Farewell to Her Son

Lisa Marie Presley was heartbroken after the loss of her only son, Benjamin Keough, who passed away at the age of 27 in 2020. The depth of her grief is now revealed in her posthumous memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which was completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.

In the memoir, the pair share that Presley chose to keep her son’s body at home rather than in a morgue. “They told us that if we could tend to the body, we could have him at home, so she kept him in our house for a while on dry ice,” Riley wrote, using recordings of her mother’s memories to finish the book. “It was really important for my mom to have ample time to say goodbye to him, just as she had with her father. I would go and sit in there with him.”

Lisa Marie, the only child of music legend Elvis Presley, experienced profound loss when her father died of a heart attack at 42 in 1977. Benjamin Keough passed away in January 2023 due to complications from prior weight loss surgery at the age of 54.

In the memoir, Presley described how she kept her son, affectionately known as “Ben Ben,” in a separate casitas bedroom of her home. She explained that California law does not require an immediate burial, and she found a compassionate funeral home owner who supported her decision: “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 said, ‘Well bring Ben Ben to you. You can have him there.’”

Presley noted that the room where her son’s body was kept had to be maintained at 55 degrees. She expressed feeling “fortunate that there was a way that I could still parent him, delaying it a bit longer so that I could become okay with laying him to rest.”

Both Lisa Marie Presley and Benjamin Keough are now laid to rest at Graceland, alongside her father.