BILL EDGAR: COFFIN CONFESSOR

On the Gold Coast of Australia, a man named Bill Edgar is a “coffin confessor.” He carries out the wishes of people after they die. For $10,000, he is hired by people “knocking on death’s door” to go to their funerals or gravesides and reveal the secrets they want their loved ones to know. The idea came up when he was working as a private investigator for a terminally ill man. They got to talking about dying and death and the dying man asked Edgar to crash his funeral and interrupt the man’s best friend when he was delivering the eulogy, telling him “to sit down and shut up, because he knew the best friend had been trying to have an affair with his wife.” And a business was born. In the past two years Edgar has crashed 22 funerals and graveside events, spilling the tightly-held secrets of his clients who paid him a flat fee of $10,000 for his service. Mr Edgar protects himself legally by recording his client’s confession or request.
– He once had to ask three mourners to stand up and leave the service and if they didn’t he was to escort them out because the dead man didn’t want them at his funeral.
– He said his most confronting job was telling mourners at a biker’s funeral that his client was gay and his lover was in the audience.
– He went to a church service and asked the priest to sit down and be quiet because his client didn’t want a religious service.
– Sometimes he’s asked to go into a home that the person used to own and get rid of some items that they don’t want their kids to find.
And if you think this would make a great TV show or movie, Mr. Edgar has already signed a deal with an entertainment company.
* It is a great concept for a movie, but how are they going to work a car chase and explosions into it?
* How awful is this? You’re at a funeral, relieved that you’ve actually gotten away with something bad, and then this guy stands up.
* You should see how many people at the funerals get insulted and want their flowers back.
* So he runs a dying business that’s actually growing.
* The most important rule about being a coffin confessor is cashing the check before the client kicks off.