Lisa Marie Presley was laid to rest alongside her son Benjamin Keough at the Meditation Garden at Graceland, next to her father Elvis.
The singer-songwriter, who died last Thursday at the age of 54, was laid to rest in the family plot at the Memphis estate of the King of Rock and Roll, ET Online revealed.
A memorial service for the unfortunate mother of four will be held on Sunday at Graceland and livestreamed online.
Benjamin, the adored son of Lisa Marie, shot himself in July 2020 at the age of 27.
Lisa Marie Presley was laid to rest alongside her son Benjamin Keough at the Meditation Garden at Graceland, next to her father Elvis
Elvis, his parents Vernon and Gladys, and his children Lisa Marie and Benjamin are buried in the Meditation Garden adjacent to the mansion, which is now a pilgrimage site for devout followers of the icon.
On Sunday at 9 a.m. local time, a memorial service will be held on the front lawn, followed by a procession to Lisa Marie’s final resting place.
The LA County Coroner revealed on Tuesday that her official cause of death would be withheld pending the results of a toxicology test, which may take years.
Presley was up terrified of her own mortality after discovering her father dead at the age of nine, an experience that traumatized her.
She frequently discussed her own demise and even referred to the Graceland estate’s backyard as a ‘graveyard.’
“How many individuals have a family plot in their backyard? How many individuals are reminded of their fate and mortality every single day? She told Playboy in 2003, “All the graves are lined up, and there is a spot waiting for me right next to my grandmother.”
The singer-songwriter, who died last Thursday at the age of 54, was laid to rest in a private ceremony at the family plot at the Memphis mansion of the King of Rock and Roll.
Benjamin, the adored son of Lisa Marie, shot himself in July 2020 at age 27. (pictured together in 2015)
Last Sunday, despite her fear, the singer believed she had many more years to live and told her friend, a grief counselor, that she had “so much to do.”
They were at Graceland to celebrate what would have been Elvis’ 88th birthday. Presley, who rarely makes public appearances, told the adoring audience, “You are the only people who can get me out of the house.”
‘I’m not kidding. She stated, “I love you back, and that is why I am here.”
Several Presleys passed away from heart issues, including her father, who passed away in 1977 at the age of 42 from cardiac arrhythmia with ventricular fibrillation, a disorder in which the heart beats erratically and finally stops.
Her grandmother, Gladys Love Presley, died of heart failure at the age of 46, and her grandfather, Vernon Elvis Presley, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 63.
In August of last year, Lisa Marie penned an essay commemorating National Grief Awareness about the death of her son Benjamin.
“I can get why people might want to avoid you after a horrific catastrophe has occurred. Especially a parent who has lost a child, as it is genuinely your worst fear,’ she wrote in her People-published column.
Lisa Marie stated that she had kept her distance from other parents whose children had committed suicide, a fact that seemed to torment her.
She wrote, “I can recall a few instances where I knew parents who had lost a child, and while I was there for them when it happened, I avoided them afterward and never bothered to follow up with them because they became a literal representation of my greatest fear.”
Lisa Marie Presley, who died on Thursday at the age of 54 after suffering a heart arrest, authored an essay last August titled “Unrelenting Grief” on her overwhelming grief over her son Benjamin’s suicide in 2020. Seen together in 2012
“I also subtly judged them, and I swore I’d never do whatever I felt they did or neglected in their parenting actions and decisions with their child,”
Since her son’s death, she has been “living in the horrific reality” of grief’s “unrelenting grips,” she said.
Fans have left floral tributes at the front gate of the singer’s estate after her passing.
The Graceland website stated, “In lieu of flowers, the family requests that all who wish to send something do so in the form of a donation to The Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation.”
Presley passed away on January 12 after experiencing a second heart arrest in the hospital. The family of the patient signed a “do not resuscitate” order.
Thursday morning, the 54-year-old only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was brought to the hospital after her staff discovered her fallen in her Calabasas home.
TMZ said on Friday that EMTs arriving at her home were able to revive her and she regained a pulse, but she was brain dead upon arrival at the hospital.
Her relatives raced to her bedside, where she was in a coma and receiving life support. They signed a “do not resuscitate” order upon realizing she was already brain dead.
She died due to a second heart attack.
Priscilla, her 77-year-old mother, was at her bedside.
Priscilla Presley issued a statement on Thursday evening announcing the death of her daughter Lisa Marie.
She was the most fervent, courageous, and loving woman I’ve ever known.
Her first ex-husband Danny Keough, with whom she was living at the time of her death, returned to the home shortly after she fell and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.
Keough is the father of her 33-year-old daughter Riley, an actress, and her 27-year-old son Benjamin, who committed suicide in July 2020.
Her fourth husband, Michael Lockwood, is the father of her twin 14-year-old children Harper Vivienne and Finlay, who have stated that they will not return to the house where their mother passed away.
Two days before her death, Presley attended the Golden Globes to celebrate Austin Butler’s Best Actor win for portraying her father, where she cried during the actor’s acceptance speech.
And on Sunday, the singer-songwriter told the dedicated gathering at her father’s Memphis estate celebrating his 88th birthday that they were the “only people who can get me out of the house.”
In 1970, Lisa Marie was with her parents. Presley discovered the death of her father at age nine.
Two years after her son Benjamin’s suicide, fans noted that the daughter of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, who had not posted on Instagram since August, appeared “extremely sad” and “really hurting.”
According to her former counselor, Karen De La Carriere, Presley was so traumatized by her father’s death and the discovery of his body when she was nine years old that she spent the following 35 years attempting to be ‘cured’ by Scientology.
De La Carriere, sometimes known as the ‘Queen of Scientology,’ was a 35-year member of the church in a position of prominence.
She said that Priscilla Presley, who resorted to Scientology after Elvis’s untimely death in 1977, utilized the religion to control her daughter’s behavioral issues.
According to De La Carriere, Lisa Marie, who was 11 years old at the time, and her mother had a “hostile relationship” and engaged in “mortal combat” for the rest of their lives.
The counselor became Presley’s auditor – Scientology-speak for counselor – and stated that as a schoolgirl, Presley was placed in “obedience therapy.”
De La Carriere stated that if Elvis had survived, he would never have permitted such an occurrence.
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