Lisa Marie Presley kept her dead son's body in a 55-degree room for two months

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Lisa Marie Presley took many stunning secrets to her grave when she died of a small intestinal obstruction in January 2023, but not before putting them to paper.

From Here to the Great Unknown, a memoir she wrote before her death, examines the hardships Elvis Presley's only child experienced during her 54 years of life. The book, completed posthumously by her eldest child, actress Riley Keough, contains shocking details about the death of her son Benjamin Keough.

He died by suicide in 2020.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY'S SON BENJAMIN KEOUGH WAS SETTLED IN ELVIS PRESLEY'S GRACELAND

Benjamin Keough attends the world premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” in London with his mother, Lisa Marie Presley, and stepfather, Michael Lockwood, left. (Dave M Benett/Getty Images)

“My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I housed Ben there for two months,” Presley wrote.

“There is no law in the state of California that says you have to bury someone immediately. I found a very compassionate funeral home owner. I told her that having my father 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’re bringing Ben Ben to you.”

Presley was only 9 years old when her father died.

Elvis Presley's only child was Lisa Marie Presley. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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For Benjamin, the room was kept at a cool 55 degrees.

Keough previously wrote that her brother was “on dry ice.”

Presley struggled with the question of where to bury her son – Hawaii or Graceland – which ultimately delayed the inevitable.

“My house has a separate casitas bedroom and I kept Ben there for two months. There is no law in the state of California that says you have to bury someone immediately.”

–Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley smiles with her four children Riley and Benjamin Keough as well as Finley Aaron Love and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood. (Lisa Marie Presley Instagram)

“But I got so used to him, looked after him and kept him there. I think it would scare the hell out of anyone else to have their son there like that. But not me,” she wrote.

Presley wrote that the grieving process is often rushed. “I was so happy that there was a way to still educate him and delay it a little longer so I was okay with putting him to rest.”

Meanwhile, Keough wrote that she and her mother decided to get her brother's name tattooed on them, similar to how he had her name tattooed on his body.

Lisa Marie Presley (center) poses with her mother Priscilla (left) and daughter Riley in a 2015 photo. (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros.)

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“We met with the artist in the small courtyard next to the casitas, and during the meeting my mother insisted that she wanted her tattoo exactly where my brother had his. The artist said it was possible, but he had to know.” the font, the positioning. “Do you happen to have any photos?” She remembered him asking.

“'No…but I can show you,'” her mother replied.

“I looked at my mom and with my eyes I just said, ‘Are you crazy? You've never met this guy before. Don't put him in this room with my dead brother.'”

Lisa Marie Presley kept her son's body in her home for two months after his death. (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

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But Presley did, even grabbing her son's lifeless hand to show the tattoo artist exactly how she wanted her hand.

“I've had an extremely absurd life, but this moment is in the top 5,” Keough wrote.

“Soon after, we all got the feeling from my brother that he didn’t want his body in this house anymore. 'Guys,' he seemed to be saying, 'this is getting weird.' Even my mother said she could feel him saying to her, “This is crazy, Mom, what are you doing?”

Shortly thereafter, he was buried at Graceland next to his famous grandfather.