<p>Rossi tells the G1 news website that his weekly sleeping habit became public last month when his 14-year-old grandson wrote a story about him for his school’s newspaper.<br /><br />Rossi says he sleeps in the coffin to honor a deceased friend.<br /><br />Long ago, the two friend promised each other that whoever died first would have his casket bought by the other. Rossi’s friend bought him a coffin when he mistakenly thought Rossi had died in a 1983 car crash.<br /><br />When his best friend died in 1988, Rossi started sleeping in the coffin to honour his memory.<br /><br />And he also kept his promise to buy the dead friend a “brand new” casket.<br /></p>
<p>Rossi tells the G1 news website that his weekly sleeping habit became public last month when his 14-year-old grandson wrote a story about him for his school’s newspaper.<br /><br />Rossi says he sleeps in the coffin to honor a deceased friend.<br /><br />Long ago, the two friend promised each other that whoever died first would have his casket bought by the other. Rossi’s friend bought him a coffin when he mistakenly thought Rossi had died in a 1983 car crash.<br /><br />When his best friend died in 1988, Rossi started sleeping in the coffin to honour his memory.<br /><br />And he also kept his promise to buy the dead friend a “brand new” casket.<br /></p>
