Lisa Marie Presley’s grave is prepared at iconic Memphis home across from dad Elvis’s plot 

The Graceland estate has begun preparations for the celebration of Lisa Marie Presley’s life, as her grave is placed across from her father’s.

Presley’s official cause of death was deferred by the Los Angeles County coroner on Tuesday. The coroner has requested further investigation into the singer’s death and additional studies.

“Once the tests/studies come back, the doctor re-evaluates the case and determines the cause of death,” said Sarah Ardalani, spokeswoman for the coroner. CNN.

Presley died at age 54 of cardiac arrest last week.

Elvis’s daughter, who found the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll dead at the age of nine, was afraid of her own mortality and referred to the backyard of the Graceland estate – where she will be buried this Sunday at 9 am – like a ‘cemetery’.

‘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.

Workers can be seen digging his grave, which is right next to his son’s and almost directly across from his father’s (bottom left).

Preparations are underway to prepare her grave, which will be placed along the backyard fountain, along with her other relatives at Graceland.

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 the age of 63 from cardiac arrest.

The mother-of-four will be buried next to her son Benjamin Keough, who took his own life in 2020, and almost directly across from his famous father’s grave.

sources said TMZ that a stage with a backdrop is being built on the front lawn of the mansion. It’s unclear who is scheduled to speak at the service, but it will be open to the public.

Presley, who died at the age of 54 of cardiac arrest last week, will be laid to rest this Sunday at 9 am at the family home in Memphis.

Additionally, the 24-hour camera feed at Graceland is now in front of the main house as preparations continue, which began Tuesday.

Since her death, fans have come to place flowers at the estate’s front gate to honor the singer.

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.

Preparations reportedly started on Tuesday and there is also a stage with a backdrop being built on the front lawn.

“She was the most passionate, strong, loving woman I have ever met.”

Her ex-husband Danny Keough, the first of four, with whom she lived, 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.

He was at the Golden Globes two days before his death to celebrate Austin Butler’s Best Actor award for playing his father, where he broke down in tears at the Golden Globes during the actor’s speech.

Since her death, fans have come to place flowers at the estate’s front gate to honor the singer.

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.

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 the suicide of her son Benjamin Keough, who is buried. together with him. Elvis at Graceland.

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.

Lisa Marie with her parents in 1970. Presley found her father dead at the age of nine.

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 had a “hostile relationship” and were 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.