“It was the second saddest day of my life, other than losing Elvis [Presley],” Priscilla says. “It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that Lisa was gone.“
According to Priscilla, she knew her daughter was “gone” from “the first moment” she went into her late daughter’s hospital room.
“She was hooked to a machine that was breathing for her, and she had a heartbeat,” she writes. “There was little brain activity. Her spirit, always so vital, wasn’t there. Riley [Keough] later told us that while she was still on her flight, she had felt her mother’s spirit pass. But none of us was ready to give up yet.”
Following a code blue, Lisa Marie’s doctor asked the matriarch what she wanted him to do.
“They had restarted Lisa’s heart, but there was no guarantee it would keep beating. I asked the doctor, ‘What kind of life will she have if we keep her on that machine?'” she recalled.
After the doctor said there would be “no quality of life at all,” she made the hard decision to end her daughter’s suffering.
“It was unbearable,” Priscilla writes of taking Lisa Marie off the machine. “I began to sob. I don’t remember falling. I know that Ivy caught me. After that, everything went dark. I can’t remember. I don’t want to remember.”
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