Why did Lisa Marie Presley keep her son’s body on dry ice after he died?

Lisa Marie Presley He wanted a proper grieving process.

In her posthumous memoirs From here to the great unknown– which her daughter completed Riley Keough– daughter Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley In detail why she kept her son Benjamin Q On dry ice for two months after his death in 2020 and how she was inspired by her father’s death.

“There is no law in California that requires you to bury someone immediately,” Lisa Marie wrote. The book is for everyone the people, With her decision to keep Benjamin’s body in a cabin near her home. “Having my father home after he died was very helpful because I could go and spend time with him and talk to him.”

Riley added that it was “really important” for her mother, who shares the actress and Benjamin with her ex-husband Danny Q“To have plenty of time to say goodbye, the same way she did with her father.”