<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lisa-marie-presley">Lisa Marie Presley</a> explained in her memoir why she decided to keep the body of her son Benjamin in her home for two months following his death.
The late daughter of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Elvis Presley</a> made the revelation in her memoir, which was published posthumously by her daughter, Riley Keough. &#8220;There is no law in the state of California that you have to bury someone immediately,&#8221; Presley wrote in the book, “From Here to the Great Unknown.” 
&#8220;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,&#8221; she continued, per <a href="https://people.com/lisa-marie-presley-kept-son-body-on-dry-ice-for-2-months-after-death-8724730">People</a>. 
&#8220;That was part of why it took so long,&#8221; Presley wrote. &#8220;I 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.&#8221;
Benjamin, nicknamed Ben Ben by his family, died by suicide in 2020 when he was 27 years old. 
Presley explained, “My house has a separate casitas bedroom, and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months &#8230; I found a very empathic funeral home owner.” 
She <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/lisa-marie-presley-son-benjamin-body-ice-two-months-death-grief-1235796599/">continued</a>, “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, ‘We’ll bring Ben Ben [her nickname for her son] to you. You can have him there.&#8217;”
&#8220;I 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,&#8221; she wrote.
Keough wrote that it was &#8220;really important&#8221; for her mom to &#8220;have ample time to say goodbye to him, the same way she&#8217;d done with her dad.”
The room with Benjamin’s 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&#8217;s. When the artist, who came to the house, asked if he could see a photo to copy, Lisa Marie allegedly said, &#8220;No, but I can show you.”
 “Lisa 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&#8217;ve had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five,&#8221; Lisa Marie’s daughter wrote of the experience. 
Presley died in 2023 of a small bowel obstruction caused by complications from previous weight loss surgery.

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Lisa Marie Presley Kept Her Son’s Body At Home For Two Months After His Death

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/incredibly-painful-lisa-marie-presleys-daughter-talks-finishing-moms-memoir">Lisa Marie Presley&#8217;s</a> memoir has revealed how serious the star’s opioid addiction was during the height of her addiction, with a quote about how it was “too painful to be sober.”
In the new memoir “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Here-Great-Lisa-Marie-Presley/dp/0593733878" target="_blank" rel="noopener">From Here to the Great Unknown</a>” &#8212; written by Lisa Marie and completed by her daughter actress Riley Keough &#8212; the late star opened up about becoming addicted to the painkillers after giving birth to her twins in 2008, Finley and Harper, with ex-husband Michael, <a href="https://people.com/lisa-marie-presley-would-take-80-pills-during-her-opioid-addiction-8724749">People magazine</a> reported. Presley died in January 2023 at the age of 54 from complications from prior bariatric surgery.
&#8220;It escalated to 80 pills a day,&#8221; Lisa Marie wrote. &#8220;It took more and more to get high, and I honestly don&#8217;t know when your body decides it can&#8217;t deal with it anymore. But it does decide at some point.&#8221;
The late star said her opioid use was &#8220;recreational” for a few years, until &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;It was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal in the big leagues. I just wanted to check out. It was too painful to be sober.&#8221;
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Keough wrote that her mom first became addicted to the narcotics while dealing with the pain of her C-section from having the twins. Her addiction progressed from using the opioids to help her “sleep,&#8221; but she began to feel “shame” about becoming an addict with two young kids.
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The 35-year-old actress wrote that, even when her mom was court-ordered to go to a rehab center, she “didn&#8217;t feel” her mom “was ready to be sober.” She also wrote that after her mom’s rehab stint, Lisa Marie did stop using opioids, but was still getting high on the &#8220;post-rehab cocktail.&#8221;
Keough previously opened up about how “incredibly painful” it was making her late mother’s final wish a reality, by completing Presley’s memoir.
“Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected,” Keough explained.
“What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was,” she added. “To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life.”
“I want to give voice to my mother in a way that eluded her while she was alive,” Riley continued. “I hope that in an extraordinary circumstance, people relate to a very human experience of love, heartbreak, loss, addiction and family. [My mom] wanted to write a book in the hopes that someone could read her story and relate to her, to know that they’re not alone in the world. Her hope with this book was just human connection. So that’s mine.”
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