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Lisa Marie Presley has been buried next to her son Benjamin Keough in the Meditation Garden at Graceland, near her father Elvis.
The singer-songwriter, who died last Thursday at the age of 54, was buried in the family plot of the King of Rock and Roll mansion in Memphis in a private ceremony. ET online confirmed.
A public memorial for the tragic mother of four will be held at Graceland on Sunday, which will also be streamed live online.
Lisa Marie’s beloved son, Benjamin, committed suicide in July 2020 at age 27.
Lisa Marie Presley has been buried next to her son Benjamin Keough in the Meditation Garden at Graceland, near her father Elvis (pictured: grave preparations earlier this week)
Along with Lisa Marie and Benjamin, Elvis and his parents, Vernon and Gladys, are buried in the Meditation Garden next to the mansion, which is now a pilgrimage destination for devoted fans of the icon.
A memorial service on Sunday will be held at 9 a.m. local time on the front lawn, followed by a procession to view Lisa Marie’s final resting place.
The Los Angeles County coroner announced Tuesday that it would defer the results of his official cause of death pending the results of a toxicology test, which could take years.
Presley grew up fearing her own mortality after finding her father dead at the age of nine, traumatizing her.
He often spoke of his own death and even referred to the backyard of the Graceland estate as a “graveyard”.
‘How many people have a family grave in the backyard? How many people are reminded of their fate, their mortality, every damn day? All the graves are lined up and there is a place there waiting for me, right next to my grandmother,” she told Playboy in 2003.
The singer-songwriter, who died last Thursday at the age of 54, was buried in the family plot of the King of Rock and Roll mansion in Memphis in a private ceremony.
Lisa Marie’s beloved son Benjamin shot himself in July 2020 at age 27 (pictured together in 2015)
Despite her fear, the singer believed she had many more years to live last Sunday and told friend David Kessler, who works as a grief counselor, that she had “a lot to do.”
The couple were at the Graceland estate to celebrate what would have been Elvis’s 88th birthday and Presley, who rarely makes public appearances, told the adoring crowd: “You’re the only people who can get me out of the house.” house”.
‘I’m not kidding. I love you back and that’s why I’m here,’ she said.
Several of the Presleys also died of heart problems, including his own father, who died in 1977 at the age of 42 of cardiac arrhythmia with ventricular fibrillation, a condition in which the heart beats abnormally and then stops.
His grandmother, Gladys Love Presley, died at the age of 46 from heart failure, and his grandfather, Vernon Elvis Presley, died at age 63 from cardiac arrest.
In August of last year, Lisa Marie wrote an essay on the death of her son Benjamin to commemorate National Bereavement Awareness.
‘I can understand why people might want to avoid you once a terrible tragedy occurs. Especially a father who loses his child because it’s really your worst nightmare,’ he wrote in his essay, which was published by People.
Lisa Marie admitted that she had stayed away from the parents of other people whose children committed suicide, something that seemed to haunt her.
“I can remember a couple of times in my life where I met parents who lost their child and even though I was able to be there for them when it happened, I avoided them afterwards and never bothered to follow up because they literally became a proxy. . of my greatest fear,’ he wrote.
‘Unrelenting grief’: Lisa Marie Presley, who died on Thursday at 54 after going into cardiac arrest, wrote an essay last August about her overwhelming grief over the suicide of her son Benjamin in 2020. Seen together in 2012
“I also discreetly judged them, and swore that I would never do whatever I felt they did or neglected in their actions and parenting choices with their child.”
She added that she had been “living in the horrible reality” of the “relentless grip” of grief since her son’s death.
Since her death, fans have come to place flowers at the estate’s front gate to honor the singer.
“In lieu of flowers, the family encourages anyone who wishes to send something to do so in the form of a donation to the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation,” said the Graceland website read.
Presley died on January 12 after suffering a second cardiac arrest while in the hospital. His family signed a ‘do not resuscitate’ order.
The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, 54, was rushed to hospital Thursday morning after her housekeeper found her collapsed inside her Calabasas home.
EMTs who arrived at her home were able to revive her and her pulse returned, but by the time she arrived at the hospital she was brain dead, TMZ reported Friday.
The family rushed to his bedside, where he was in an induced coma and on life support. Upon learning that he was already brain dead, they signed a ‘do not resuscitate’ order.
She suffered a second cardiac arrest and died.
His 77-year-old mother Priscilla was at his bedside.
“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement Thursday night.
“She was the most passionate, strong, loving woman I have ever met.”
Her ex-husband Danny Keough, the first of four, with whom she was living at the time of her death, had returned to the house shortly after she collapsed and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.
Keough is the father of actress daughter Riley, 33, and son Benjamin, who committed suicide in July 2020 at age 27.
Her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, is the father of Presley’s 14-year-old twin daughters, Harper Vivienne and Finlay, who have said they will not return to the house where their mother died.
Presley was at the Golden Globes two days before his death, celebrating Austin Butler’s Best Actor award for playing his father, where he broke down in tears during the actor’s speech.
And on Sunday, the singer-songwriter told the devout crowd at her father’s Memphis estate that they were the “only people who can get me out of the house,” to mark her 88th birthday.
Lisa Marie with her parents in 1970. Presley found her father dead at the age of nine.
Fans said the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s daughter, who hadn’t posted on Instagram since August, looked ‘incredibly sad’ and ‘really hurt’, two years after her son Benjamin’s suicide.
In addition, Presley was so traumatized by the death of her father, and by discovering his body at the age of nine, that she spent the next 35 years trying to be “cured” by Scientology, according to her former adviser, Karen De La Carriere. .
De La Carriere, known as the ‘Queen of Scientology’, was a high-ranking member of the church for 35 years.
She said Priscilla Presley, who had turned to Scientology to ease the pain of Elvis’s sudden death in 1977, used the church to help manage her daughter’s behavior problems.
As a result, Lisa Marie, then just 11 years old, and her mother were in a “hostile relationship” and in “mortal combat” for the rest of their lives, De La Carriere claims.
The counselor became Presley’s auditor (Scientology lingo counselor) and said Presley was put into “obedience therapy” when she was a schoolgirl.
De La Carriere said that Elvis would never have allowed that to happen if he had lived.