Elvis Presley crypt up for auction next month

In this undated image released by Julien's Auctions, shows singer Elvis Presley's Crypt in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., that will be auctioned as part of Music Icons June 23rd & 24th, 2012, at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died Aug. 16, 1977. They were later reburied at his Graceland home. / AP Photo/Julien's Auctions

(AP) LOS ANGELES - For the right price, you or a loved one can rest in peace in the tomb of The King.

Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien is selling Elvis Presley's original crypt to the highest bidder as part of his "Music Icons" auction next month.

The tomb is located inside the granite and marble mausoleum at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn.

Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died Aug. 16, 1977. Two months later, they were reburied at his Graceland home. The original crypt has remained empty ever since.

Julien says the winning bid from the auction beginning June 23 will receive the crypt, opening and closing of the vault for burial, a memorialization inscription and use of a chapel for a committal service. Transportation and funeral home charges are not included.

[KansasCity-2012]

This goes right up there with that old "shot up" car occupied by Bonnie and Clyde Parker, when they were ambushed by the law.

If you turn you life into a carnival and live like a side show exhibit, then people will do turn your death into one.

[jbrazell]

Doesn't that just mean you were famous and in Elvis' case, people loved him?

[KansasCity-2012]

This goes right up there with that old "shot up" car occupied by Bonnie and Clyde Parker, when they were ambushed by the law.

If you turn you life into a carnival and live like a side show exhibit, then people will do turn your death into one.

[Hera63]

Well, here we go again!!! LET IT GO!! Elvis is dead, and please even if he so called "faked" his death, it was 35 years ago!!! He'd be an old man, and his health wasn't that great with all the drugs he did. You people are pathetic. And please, buying his crypt??? That's sick. He wasn't in it that long anyway, cuz people kept vandalizing. Do yourself a favor, go take a tour of Graceland, go where he LIVED and not where he was buried at.

[ugacrew]

The mindset that makes people out of "icons" will be the same of the person or individuals who will offer to pay an unbelieveable amount of money for this. Such a mindset is prevalent and keeps the paparazzi in business.

The individual who sells it is simply smart enough to take advantage of it.

[jbrazell]

I agree. If I owned it and didn't care anything about Elvis, I would sell it too. Make a fortune. Why not? It's called free enterprise or capitalism.

[TJphoto]

WHO REALLY CARES?????

[tmn]

Just shut up and bid.

[imnho]

I think that selling his crypt is a dead issuse. I thought he retubned to his home planet

[micmac666]

'Sorry, too morbid. People will do the stupidest B.S. for bragging rights.

[WakeUpPeople001]

Well, if you can't make a cash cow out of Michael, Amy, or Whitney, return to the music industry's most reliable source of revenue...Elvis!!!

[nojoy01]

Who-o-o-e-e A chance to own an irrelevant piece of history. By the way, WHO's selling it, WHY are they selling it, and WHAT is this doing in 'Entertainment' and not in 'Offbeat'?

[MIO42]

And on the third day "He was Returned to Sender"