Lisa Marie Presley kept her late son Benjamin's body on dry ice at home for months

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Everyone grieves differently, but according to her memoir From here to the great unknown, Lisa Marie Presley found it particularly difficult to let go of her son Benjamin Keough after his death.

The book, published posthumously and co-written by her daughter Riley Keough, says that Lisa Marie “found a very compassionate funeral director” who allowed her to keep her 27-year-old son's body in her home for two months House to keep tragic death by suicide in July 2020.

Elvis Presley's late daughter revealed that the body was not kept in the middle of her home, writing, “My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I kept Ben Ben there for two months. There is no law in the state of California that says you have to bury someone immediately.”

Riley, 35, wrote in her part of her memoir about one of the final moments before her brother was finally buried. Her mother wanted to get a tattoo to match Benjamin's, so she invited a tattoo artist to her home to give her the ink. In what the Daisy Jones and the Six The actress called this one of the “five” most absurd moments in her life. She recalled how Lisa Marie told the artist that although she had no photos of her son's tattoo, she could “show” him the tattoo on the body herself. “Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at the body of her dead son,” Riley wrote, commenting on the strangeness of the circumstances.

The tattoo apparently allowed Lisa Marie to move on and eventually bury her son. “Even my mom said she could feel him talking to her and saying, 'This is crazy mom, what are you doing? What the fuck!'” The family finally buried Benjamin in Malibu in 2020, two months after his death.