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Lisa Marie Presley to Be Buried Alongside Son Benjamin Keough
Lisa Marie Presley wanted a due grieving process.
In her posthumous memoir From Here To The Great Unknown—which was completed by her girl Riley Keough—the girl of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley elaborate wherefore she kept her lad Benjamin Keough connected adust crystal for 2 months aft his 2020 decease and however she took inspiration from the decease of her father.
“There is nary instrumentality successful the authorities of California that you person to hide idiosyncratic immediately,” Lisa Marie wrote successful the book, per People, of her determination to support Benjamin’s assemblage successful a casita adjacent her home. “Having my dada successful the location aft helium died was incredibly adjuvant due to the fact that I could spell and walk clip with him and speech to him.”
And Riley added that it was “really important,” for her mother—who shared the histrion and Benjamin with ex Danny Keough—to “have ample clip to accidental goodbye to him, the aforesaid mode she'd done with her dad.”
After Elvis’ decease successful 1977—when his lone girl was conscionable 9 years old—he was buried connected the spot of his Memphis property Graceland, where Lisa Marie spent clip arsenic a child. In summation to replicating the grieving process she had for her father, Lisa Marie—who resided successful California before her 2023 death—had different crushed for keeping her son’s assemblage preserved earlier his burial: the statement of whether to hide him successful Memphis oregon Hawaii.
“That was portion of wherefore it took truthful long," Lisa Marie—who was besides ma to 15-year-old duplicate daughters Harper and Finley Lockwood with ex Michael Lockwood—admitted elsewhere successful her memoir. “I got truthful utilized to him, caring for him and keeping him there. I deliberation it would scare the surviving f--king piss retired of anybody other to person their lad determination similar that. But not me.”
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She emphasized, “I felt truthful fortunate that determination was a mode that I could inactive genitor him, hold it a spot longer truthful that I could go good with laying him to rest.”
Ultimately, though, Lisa Marie had to fto her lad go, arsenic Riley called the acquisition of keeping Benjamin astatine their spot for truthful agelong became “absurd.”
“We each got this vibe from my member that helium didn't privation his assemblage successful this location anymore,” Riley wrote successful the memoir, retired Oct. 8. “‘Guys,’ helium seemed to beryllium saying, ‘This is getting weird.’ Even my ma said that she could consciousness him talking to her, saying, ‘This is insane, Mom, what are you doing? What the f--k!’”
But portion Lisa Marie was yet capable to person Benjamin laid to remainder adjacent his gramps connected Graceland’s property—where she herself was besides buried—Riley has shared earlier that her parent was ne'er truly capable to enactment done her grief.
“My ma tried her champion to find spot for maine and my younger sisters aft Ben died, but we knew however overmuch symptom she was in,” Riley told People past month. “My ma physically died from the aft effects of her surgery, but we each knew she died of a breached heart.”
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