I’m a Coffin Confessor. I Tell People’s Secrets From Beyond the Grave.
About three years ago, one of Edgar’s clients was “being ripped off by someone within his business, but he was also terminally ill.”
Edgar made a joke to his client stating that he would crash his funeral and do the eulogy. Although it was a joke, his client called him a few weeks later to take him up on the offer.
The client offered to pay him to do “exactly what he asked.” He told Edgar to “interrupt the funeral when his best friend was reading the eulogy and to tell his best friend to sit down and shut up.” Edgar was then to explain to everyone that he had something to say on the behalf of the deceased.
At the funeral, Edgar outed his client’s best friend for trying to sleep with his client’s wife and also asked three of the attendees to stand up and make themselves known and tell them to “get lost.”
Edgar received emails from his deceased clients wife as well as his daughter. The daughter explained that her dad told her that someone was going to do something at the funeral, but he did not tell her what.
Edgar explained that he felt good doing something for his client that made his client, who didn’t have the strength to do these things himself, feel empowered.
Edgar has now been coined the “Coffin Confessor” and has now done 22 funerals. Although Edgar still continues to say yes to funeral confessions, there are some requests he will and has said no too.
Edgar stated, “I’ve actually had funeral directors tell me I have to leave, and I’ve told them that this is my client and if they don’t let me do my job, I will take my client with me. Before they pass, I set my clients up with a separate funeral director in case, so we are ready to take the coffin and bury them elsewhere if their final wishes are not respected.”
You can find Bill Edgars business at coffinconfessions.com.au
See Bill Edgar, I’m a Coffin Confessor. I Tell People’s Secrets From Beyond the Grave., Newsweek, September 5th, 2020.
Special thanks to Lewis Saret (Attorney, Washington, D.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.