A wealthy entrepreneur from Brazil has taken inspiration from Egyptian Pharoahs and has decided to be buried with his most precious asset: his £310,000 Bentley convertible. The entrepreneur, who goes by "Count Chiquinho Scarpa," announced his desire on Facebook, revealing that the he was inspired by a documentary he saw on Egypt to be buried with his riches. The 62-year-old intends to entomb his Bentley Continental to ensure that he has a luxurious journey to his afterlife. Count Scarpa posted a picture of himself posing with his black Bentley and a caption that reads: "I decided to do as the Pharaohs: this week I will bury my favourite car, the Bentley here in the home garden! Bury my treasure in my palace rssss !!!"
The grave that Count Scarpa is digging for his vehicle will be in the backyard of his mansion in Jardins -- one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Sao Paulo. The wealthy entrepreneur posted another picture on Facebook with his foot on a shovel and a deep hole in the ground, captioned: "For those who doubt me, yesterday I already started making the hole in the garden to bury my Bentley! By the end of the week I will bury it." So who exactly is this eccentric man? Count Scarpa is a self-made businessman who has a degree in economics, holds a black belt and owns a Japanese martial arts academy called the Institute Maruyama Aikido. He inherited his wealthy from his father and made his own fortune from success in the brewery and mining industry. Currently, Count Scarpa runs an investment company. While the Count has been married twice (his first wife passed away and he is divorced from his second wife), he has no children and has adopted his cockatoo as his daughter. His Italian-born father, Count Francisco Scarpa, was given the title by Pope Pius XII in 1949 for his charitable contributions to society.
Count Scarpa's intentions are taking social media by a storm as his efforts are receiving thousands of likes and shares on Facebook. On the social media website, he chronicles his progress for burying his Bentley and revealed that he would be on Danilo Gentili's satirical talk show on Bandeirantes television to talk about his Bentley funeral. "I watched the film of the pharaohs and after seeing how they were buried with their treasures I decided that I wanted to copy them and bury my most precious item, which is my car," he says. When asked if he wanted to bury his car to avoid taxes, the entrepreneur shot down the notion. "No,' he answered, 'I've already shown all my documents to the authorities before doing the funeral."
And if you think Count Scarpa is jumping the gun prematurely by planning for his funeral, know that he was in a coma in 2009 for over two months as a result of a superbug almost killing him after a stomach reduction procedure. During the process, he "died" twice and was given the last rites by priests on both near-death instances. "I was in a coma for 63 days; the doctor told me he had 'opened' me eight times. I came close to death twice. The priest gave me two anointings. This was all because of bacteria. I took it and got away with it. Unfortunately this was not the case with my mother. She had an operation on her femur, got the bacterium and died in February 2012. I am strong," says Count Scarpa to a magazine.
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