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.
Rossi says he sleeps in the coffin to honor a deceased friend.
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.
When his best friend died in 1988, Rossi started sleeping in the coffin to honour his memory.
And he also kept his promise to buy the dead friend a “brand new” casket.