‘Dying people pay me £5,000 to crash their funerals and reveal their secrets’

Bill Edgar had finally tracked them down – the father and brother of an elderly woman who had died by suicide.

A dad-of-two who lives on the coast of Queensland, Australia, Bill had been asked by the woman to be her real-life ‘suicide note’.

However, when he went to speak to the pair, they simply told him: ‘Oh, she should have done it years ago.’

‘No one attended her funeral. She had nobody in her life at all. But that’s what I do: I’m the coffin confessor,’ Bill, 56, tells Metro.

A ‘coffin confessor’ isn’t the kind of job you’d usually see on LinkedIn – they’re people hired by the deceased to carry out a final act, such as crashing a funeral to declare a truth or giving a message to a relative at their graveside.

Bill is the world’s only coffin confessor, he claims. He’s a man who ha