1 Jul 2024

The Coffin Confessor talks about his unusual day job

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 1 July 2024

Bill Edgar is no longer just the Coffin Confessor. The Australian businessman made headlines around the world a few years ago for gate crashing funerals on behalf of the dearly departed to carry out their final wishes.

Since then, he's signed a movie contract with Paramount pictures and expanded his business to be more of a concierge service for they are dying who have baggage from their lives that needs to be taken care of. 

Sometimes it's a request to destroy evidence of a long held secret. Sometimes, he's asked to keep greedy relatives away from a client's home while they lie dying in a nearby hospital.

But it's always about leaving this world with regrets. He shares stories about life that he's learned from the dying in his new book, The Afterlife Confessional.

The Afterlife Confessional book cover

The Afterlife Confessional book cover Photo: Penguin publishing