Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a sicko Mitch and Laura.
Speaker 2: That's not a surprise to anyone, But I cannot tell
Speaker 2: you how excited I am for this chat that we're
Speaker 2: about to have. We're about to speak to Bill Edgar,
Speaker 2: who I think has one of the most interesting, creepy, intriguing,
Speaker 2: disturbing jobs in Australia. So he's a businessman, he's a counselor,
Speaker 2: he's an author, he's a private detective sure, but the
Speaker 2: best part is he's a coffin confessor.
Speaker 1: This is what he calls himself. Bill's job is to
Speaker 1: go to people's deathbeds.
Speaker 2: So people as they know they don't have much time left,
Speaker 2: or maybe they do whatever it is they He goes
Speaker 2: to their deathbed and he gets their dying wish and
Speaker 2: their dying confession. So maybe it's something that this dying
Speaker 2: person wants to happen at their own funeral. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: just something they want to confess. And Bill has to
Speaker 2: go and stand up at the funeral or the grave
Speaker 2: site and like and say the confession, Hey, I know
Speaker 2: Johnny's passed away, he's employed me to blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And then they get all his secrets out. It's actually insane.
Speaker 2: I find it so fascinating. He charges ten thousand dollars
Speaker 2: to do this, and I have so many questions around,
Speaker 2: like the how, the why, the what the deepest secrets?
Speaker 2: So I have got Bill on the phone to have
Speaker 2: a chat toy, Right, Bill, Welcome to the pickup.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, thanks for having me, Hi Bill, Bill?
Speaker 1: How does one end up.
Speaker 2: Confessing people's dying last wish?
Speaker 3: Oh? You know what, It started as a joke. I
Speaker 3: just told a dying man that I crash his funeral
Speaker 3: for him, and he took me up on the offer.
Speaker 4: When you said you're going to crash his funeral, like,
Speaker 4: why were you crashing his funeral?
Speaker 1: What was the like?
Speaker 4: What was the sentiment behind it that he needed his
Speaker 4: funeral crashed?
Speaker 3: Oh? I got to meet this gentleman probably eight ten
Speaker 3: weeks before his death, and we were talking about death,
Speaker 3: the afterlife and everything in between, and I suggested he
Speaker 3: do a eulogy and he said that he'd been through
Speaker 3: enough funerals where the eulogy isn't played out of disrespect
Speaker 3: or whatever it is. And I just said, yeah, it
Speaker 3: just as a joke, you know what. Graham I can
Speaker 3: always crash your funeral for you, Mane. And a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks later, I get a text and he says, Bill,
Speaker 3: You're going to crash my funeral for me. I'm going
Speaker 3: to pay your ten grand to do it.
Speaker 1: Wow, what a what a fee he put on that
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 5: And what was what was.
Speaker 6: It that you crashed? Would you mind telling us, like,
Speaker 6: what happened? What did you have to say?
Speaker 3: Well, his best mate, while performing the eulogy with his
Speaker 3: crocodile tears to two to three minutes into that eulogy.
Speaker 3: I was to stand up, excuse myself and say to
Speaker 3: the crowd, excuse me. My name's phil Epia. S down,
Speaker 3: shove up or bug off. The man in the coffin's
Speaker 3: got something, they say, and this is what it is.
Speaker 3: You know, best made of mine. You've been trying to
Speaker 3: screw my wife while I'm on my deathbed. And if
Speaker 3: my brother, his wife and their daughter at my funeral,
Speaker 3: they can bugger off too. I haven't seen him in
Speaker 3: thirty years. Their vultures get lost.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what happened when you said this?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you could hear a pin drop at the
Speaker 3: same time. Those that truly loved the man. They knew
Speaker 3: and understood, and the best mate ob looks he just
Speaker 3: ran out. He left really quickly. The other three that
Speaker 3: were in attendance, they stood up and they left as well,
Speaker 3: and a few other people left. I think they thought
Speaker 3: they were going to get targeted. But it was his
Speaker 3: skill and it is his funeral, so why not he
Speaker 3: got to have you stay.
Speaker 4: I wantn't know what happened with the wife. I mean,
Speaker 4: was the wife was she still there? Was she did
Speaker 4: she get up and leave? Or was she was the
Speaker 4: one who was telling him that this was happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was very grateful for what happened. This this
Speaker 3: so called best mate is no longer in her life
Speaker 3: or you know, anywhere around them. She was very upset
Speaker 3: about the best mate trying to do what he was
Speaker 3: trying to do. Oh wow. And obviously she didn't want
Speaker 3: to put too much on her dying husband. But at
Speaker 3: the same time he could see everything from his bedroom on,
Speaker 3: you know. And it was one of those cases that
Speaker 3: when you're lying on your deathbed and you, yeah, you
Speaker 3: got no energy, you sleep most of the time, you've
Speaker 3: got no confident, you've got nothing, and then you're needed.
Speaker 6: Help Edgar, Is there a line for you? Do you
Speaker 6: think to yourself, I want this to be ethical? Is
Speaker 6: there any ethical element to it?
Speaker 4: Or no?
Speaker 5: Will you do absolutely anything once that, once you've been.
Speaker 3: Paid, I know no, it's definitely ethics and morals and
Speaker 3: my integrity. I mean, look, at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: I am an investigator. I'd like to investigate everybody's claims.
Speaker 3: I'm very careful. I sit with my clients and we
Speaker 3: go through everything. I will not act for a third party.
Speaker 3: In other words, if you wanted me to crash your
Speaker 3: mother's or father's heeral, I can't do that. I can
Speaker 3: only crash on behalf of them.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, hold on, this is very, very exciting.
Speaker 6: Why don't we go to a break you let's get
Speaker 6: some story, some deathbed confession stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need more.
Speaker 6: You're happy to stick around and tell us some after this, Bill,
Speaker 6: absolutely all right, stay there. We're back after this with
Speaker 6: the Coffin Confessor on the pickup Britt, Laura and Mitch
Speaker 6: joined by Bill Edgar. He's the Coffin Confessor. He's a counsel,
Speaker 6: as an author, he's a businessman. It's also a private
Speaker 6: detective and he's channeling his work now into going to
Speaker 6: the deathbed of people that are terminally ill, getting a
Speaker 6: secret that they want off their chest, and then revealing
Speaker 6: it to their friends and family in the world.
Speaker 2: Hey, Bill, is there ever any request that someone has
Speaker 2: asked you to do that you've had to put your
Speaker 2: foot down and say I can't do that, that's too far.
Speaker 3: It was, but I ended up doing it anyway because
Speaker 3: I am the coffee professor and it was a message.
Speaker 3: It was for me to actually be a lady suicide
Speaker 3: note and that was confronting. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: there's nothing that was going to stop this lady doing
Speaker 3: what she did.
Speaker 5: Wow, God, there can be a real tense job.
Speaker 6: I can only imagine tell us one of the craziest
Speaker 6: confessions that you've ever had to do. If you're at
Speaker 6: a pub having a couple of beers and your mates
Speaker 6: going to tell us us the best story?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 3: I think I got to say the best story, or
Speaker 3: the most confronting story for me, was going to the
Speaker 3: viewing of the body and pin pricking the body because
Speaker 3: the person was petrified of being cremated alive.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, No, they wanted you to go and check
Speaker 4: and make sure they were dead.
Speaker 1: That's awful.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right. We all have a phobia, we all
Speaker 3: have a fear, and we've all got a skeleton in
Speaker 3: the closet. So it's just one of those jobs that
Speaker 3: had to be done. So now I'm placing items in coffins,
Speaker 3: mobile phone, Soto's jewelry, whatever it is. Plus, I'm delivering
Speaker 3: gifts from the afterlife, which is a beautiful thing to do.
Speaker 3: I rock up at somebody's house. It could be six seven,
Speaker 3: eight months after somebody's died, on an anniversary of birthday
Speaker 3: and I'm delivering a gift special.
Speaker 4: Do you find that these people because you're spending time
Speaker 4: with people in the most vulnerable last moments? Do many
Speaker 4: people who you've spoken to have regrets or are there
Speaker 4: things that they wish they'd done differently about their life?
Speaker 4: And that's the type of thing that you're enacting or
Speaker 4: taking out, you know, I.
Speaker 3: Believe we all have that moment, you know, especially I
Speaker 3: noticed it more on the people's set beds that they
Speaker 3: wish they had more time and time to one thing.
Speaker 3: We can't buy, we can't there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 3: Time to seek It just comes in the name.
Speaker 5: Really on.
Speaker 3: So it's really one of those things that people wish
Speaker 3: they had time. But I got to say, everybody that
Speaker 3: I've met who's now no longer alive, they've all said
Speaker 3: the same thing as in, they're not the fear of
Speaker 3: death is nothing. They don't see your death. What they
Speaker 3: see you is leaving their loved ones behind. That's the
Speaker 3: biggest fear.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, if you had to say the juiciest secret
Speaker 2: that you've had to pass on, what is it?
Speaker 3: Oh, the juiciest would have to be the lady who
Speaker 3: passed away and left me a message to tell her
Speaker 3: son that his sister was his mother grandmother.
Speaker 6: Oh my my, oh wow, and ten thousand dollars you
Speaker 6: could have that experience to me.
Speaker 1: That to me sounds horrible.
Speaker 4: Imagine that being how you find out, Like, you don't
Speaker 4: need to know that after the fact, if they're going
Speaker 4: to die and take that wish with them, I just
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to know. I think that's so how
Speaker 4: did you respond to it?
Speaker 1: She's like mom, grandma's sister.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of those things that you know,
Speaker 3: people can't seem to live or let go of things,
Speaker 3: and so they hire me to do that for them.
Speaker 3: At the same time, I've asked many a person that
Speaker 3: why meet you know, why not do it yourself, or
Speaker 3: why not get a friend, and they just have no
Speaker 3: trust to or or they just can't do it when
Speaker 3: it's issues of infidelity, and I find that either revenge
Speaker 3: people doing it as a revenge thing, or they're coming
Speaker 3: clean and going you know what. So recently I crashed
Speaker 3: a fearal where the lady said that she knew her
Speaker 3: husband had been sleeping around and that she decided to
Speaker 3: do the same, and he had no idea. But when
Speaker 3: he did find out, he broke down terribly. And I said, well,
Speaker 3: you know what, man, she found out you were doing it,
Speaker 3: and she let it go, but you kept doing it,
Speaker 3: so now she's done it.
Speaker 6: You're more so the confrontation expert, right than it is
Speaker 6: the Coffin Confessor. I mean people hate confrontation. I guess
Speaker 6: that is why people are so drawn to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: keep telling people I'm just a messenger. It's not me,
Speaker 3: it's your luve.
Speaker 6: Look, if you want more from Bill Edgar, you can
Speaker 6: get his book The Coffin Confessor. More stories like that
Speaker 6: inside Hey, thanks for coming on the show. Bill, very
Speaker 6: exciting stuff. Interesting.
Speaker 3: Thanks Bill so much, all your listeners.
Speaker 5: Good man, and if you wanted services DM Bill.
Speaker 4: I just think it's I mean going like I think,
Speaker 4: when you're going to die, having such vengeance or wanting
Speaker 4: to like, you know, enact revenge on someone, it just
Speaker 4: seems really sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's their dying wish if it makes them happy.
Speaker 5: I think, all right, we're done, let's get out of here.
Speaker 5: We need to end the shore