Benjamin Keough's gruesome suicide by shotgun left his grieving mother, Lisa Marie Presley, unable to let go of her son.
In the aftermath of Benjamin Keough's suicide, Lisa, who was devastated by the loss of her son, stored his body in the freezer at home for two months, as per Business Insider. Benjamin Keough was 27 years old at the time of his death.
This is the devastating truth in her recently published memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown.” Riley Keough, her daughter, and Ben's older sister completed the book after Lisa Marie passed away on January 12 of last year at the age of 54 due to problems that arose from weight loss surgery with complications, GLOBE Magazine reported.
After emotionally troubled Ben put a shotgun barrel in his mouth and blew his brains out at his home in California on July 12, 2020, Lisa Marie was so distraught that she had to "fight" to prevent herself from following him to the grave and living for the sake of her remaining children, Riley, who is now 35 years old, and Harper and Finley, who are twins and are 16 years old.
Despite this, Lisa Marie transported his body to her house and placed it in a container filled with dry ice.
"I found a very empathetic funeral home owner. She said, 'We'll bring Ben Ben to you,’" wrote Lisa Marie. "My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I kept Ben Ben in there for two months. There is no law in the state of California hat you have to bury someone immediately. I think it would scare the living f**king piss out of anybody else to have their son there like that. But not me."
Ben's corpse was kept at 55 degrees to keep it from rotting, and Lisa Marie confessed she "got so used to him, caring for him and keeping him there."
Riley and Lisa Marie wanted to recreate the tattoos of his sister's name on his collarbone and of his mother on his hand as an homage to him and to show their appreciation for him, NBC News reported. As a result, they brought the tattoo artist to examine the tattoos that were on the frozen body.
"Lisa Marie Presley had just asked this poor man to look at the body of her dead son," Riley recalled. "I've had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top five."
Later on, Ben's body was laid to rest at Graceland in Memphis, which was the residence of his grandfather Elvis, and Lisa Marie was interred there after she passed away.
Business Times has reached out to Lisa Marie Presley for comments.
