{"id":2041319,"date":"2025-09-22T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2041319"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:01:23","slug":"priscilla-presley-recalls-lisa-marie-keeping-son-benjamins-corpse-in-a-coffin-filled-with-dry-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/priscilla-presley-recalls-lisa-marie-keeping-son-benjamins-corpse-in-a-coffin-filled-with-dry-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Presley Recalls Lisa Marie Keeping Son Benjamin\u2019s Corpse \u2018in a Coffin Filled With Dry Ice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Priscilla Presley<\/strong> is opening up about late daughter<strong> Lisa Marie Presley<\/strong>\u2019s eyebrow-raising decision to keep her son\u2019s body at home for more than two months following his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Priscilla\u2019s new book, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/priscilla-presley-opens-elvis-forcefully-160741841.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Softly As I Leave You: Life After Elvis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\"><em>Softly As I Leave You: Life After Elvis<\/em><\/a> \u2014 which hits shelves Tuesday, September 23 \u2014 she touched on how, following her grandson <strong>Benjamin Keough\u2019s<\/strong> suicide in July 2020, Lisa Marie kept his body on dry ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLisa spoke to a sympathetic funeral director about the legal requirements for interring a body,\u201d Priscilla, 80, recalled. \u201cShe found out that there was no law in California against keeping a body at home as long as certain health requirements were met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Benjamin tragically died in his mom\u2019s Calabasas home, and Priscilla noted that Lisa Marie had rented another house nearby, \u201cas none of the family could bear\u201d to \u201creturn\u201d to the place where he had passed away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe new place had a detached room, and they moved him in there and kept the temperature at fifty-five degrees. He was kept in a coffin filled with dry ice,\u201d the <em>Naked Gun<\/em> actress writes. \u201cLisa spent most of her time with him. She couldn\u2019t bear to let him go.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">APEX \/ MEGA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Priscilla, Benjamin\u2019s body \u201cremained at home with Lisa for another two and a half months, until Lisa felt he no longer wanted to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At that point, Benjamin was taken to Graceland and laid to rest in the Meditation Garden near his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/priscilla-presley-reveals-elvis-once-175059856.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:late grandfather;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">late grandfather<\/a>,<strong> Elvis Presley.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The businesswoman also recounted how, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/priscilla-presley-claims-elvis-asked-212028808.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:when her ex died in 1977;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">when her ex died in 1977<\/a>, Lisa Marie similarly \u201cstayed with Elvis\u2019s body as much as she could,\u201d because the young girl \u201cdidn\u2019t want to leave him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe would go to visit him afterward, when the house was quiet,\u201d she penned. \u201cI remembered us kissing him goodbye late that last night. Being with Elvis after death had comforted Lisa. So did being with Ben. We all grieve in our own way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priscilla Presley is opening up about late daughter Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s eyebrow-raising decision to keep her son\u2019s body at home for more than two months following his death. In Priscilla\u2019s new book, Softly As I Leave You: Life After Elvis \u2014 which hits shelves Tuesday, September 23 \u2014 she touched on how, following her grandson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[377846,25615,375548,61992,95813],"class_list":["post-2041319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-benjamin-keough","tag-elvis-presley","tag-life-after-elvis","tag-lisa-marie-presley","tag-priscilla-presley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Priscilla-Presley-Recalls-Lisa-Marie-Keeping-Son-Benjamins-Corpse-\u2018in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}