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Speaker 1: Job Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well Next.

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Speaker 2: Cause has a rather unconventional career. He helps recently deceased

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Speaker 2: clients by crashing their funerals and sharing their uncensored last

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Speaker 2: words and secrets. He's known as the Coffin Confessor. He's

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Speaker 2: written a book about his extraordinary life. Bill Edgar, Hello,

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Speaker 2: good morning, and thank you for having me. It's good

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Speaker 2: to have you on Bill, Bill, how does a job

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Speaker 2: like this come about? How do you become known as

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Speaker 2: the guy that people talk to us they're about to die.

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Speaker 3: Look, I really started as a joke. I was just

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Speaker 3: telling you talking to a dying man about death, the

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Speaker 3: after life and that. And then I suggested that I

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Speaker 3: crash his funeral for him, and he took me up

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Speaker 3: on the offer. And since then it just went nuts.

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Speaker 1: And what did he want you to do?

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Speaker 3: Bill? I had to add his best mate while his

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Speaker 3: best mate was performing the eulogy and tell the audience

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Speaker 3: that his best mate has been trying to add sex

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Speaker 3: with his wife while he's been laying on his death bed.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: There was also three members of the audience that my

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Speaker 3: clients said if they did attend, I was to remove

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Speaker 3: them because he hadn't seen them in thirty years, So

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Speaker 3: why take their respects when he's gotten.

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Speaker 2: What's the psychology here, Bill? Why do people want you

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Speaker 2: to reveal this after they've gone, rather than them saying

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Speaker 2: these words themselves.

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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of time my clients are knocking on

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Speaker 3: death's door. They're two weaks fail they even't got the

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Speaker 3: emotional strength. And plus those people that they want this

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Speaker 3: said to, they're not coming around. They're not saying goodbye

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Speaker 3: to them. They're just digving up their assets before they're

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Speaker 3: even gone, half of them. So they're turning to boxes

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Speaker 3: and it's the family around them.

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Speaker 2: So what are some of the scenarios that you've dealt with?

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Speaker 2: What are some of the things people have wanted you

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Speaker 2: to say after they've gone all?

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Speaker 3: Look the things like extra marital affairs. There's small amounts

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Speaker 3: of crime, nothing big, but there's just little confessions that

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Speaker 3: people who want to confess. And there's also love for

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Speaker 3: another person or you know, the love for their family

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Speaker 3: and friends. So a lot of people they accept the desk.

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Speaker 3: What they current accept is leaving behind everybody. You're separating themselves.

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Speaker 3: But that's the hardest part about this.

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Speaker 1: So at what point do you interject? Is it during

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Speaker 1: the eulogy? Before the eulogy, when do you pop up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So I attend the funeral as one of the mourners.

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Speaker 3: So I sit with family and friends and a specific

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Speaker 3: time set by my client. They stand up, interrupt the

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Speaker 3: service and open a letter. Read the letter and yeah,

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Speaker 3: and that's how it will.

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Speaker 2: And what's the fall out? I mean, the ultimate mic drop,

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Speaker 2: isn't it? But then how do people respond to that?

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Speaker 2: What happens next?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So at first it's very confronting for a lot

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Speaker 3: of people. They'll sit there, they'll gass a couple of people.

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Speaker 3: May they sit down or shut up? However, I'll continue

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Speaker 3: because I'm there to do a job on behalf of

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Speaker 3: the person in the coffin. So their funeral they get

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Speaker 3: together the way they want. But once you get the

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Speaker 3: crowd on your side, I've got to say. They want

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Speaker 3: to hear what their loved one left unsaid, And a

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Speaker 3: lot of the times, in most cases they're all like, oh, yes,

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Speaker 3: that's the way it should be. For instance, one gentlemen,

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Speaker 3: he didn't want a religious sing or. He said, no,

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Speaker 3: I do not want a religious n or. If there

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Speaker 3: is an religious serial bill, please interject, and the interjection

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Speaker 3: was when the pre said let us pray, Can I

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Speaker 3: say there'll be no praying today? Who?

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Speaker 2: And is there a bit of a shoot the messenger

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Speaker 2: thing where you cop the abuse.

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Speaker 3: Uh No, at the start, I thought that would happen,

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Speaker 3: but no, it's become a thing where people really want

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Speaker 3: to hear what's left behind and left unsaid. So and

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Speaker 3: at the end of it, once I read and do

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Speaker 3: what I've done, I leave the envelope on the coffin

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Speaker 3: and I walk out. So whatever happened after Mark, I

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Speaker 3: have no idea.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing, fascinating.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because when you're at a funeral, you just don't

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Speaker 1: expect that. And if someone stood up and you say

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Speaker 1: I've got something to say on behalf of the deceased,

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Speaker 1: that's excreting exactly.

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Speaker 3: And then it leads on to other things. Now, so

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Speaker 3: now I'm going to viewies and I'm taking it and

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Speaker 3: being coffins or I'm pin pricking in the body to

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Speaker 3: make sure there's no motion. Because people are absolutely terrified

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Speaker 3: about being buried or cremated alive.

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Speaker 1: Right, You've been hired by the deceased to go up

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Speaker 1: and poke them while they're in front of their family.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's not in front of their family. I do

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Speaker 3: it privately and confidentially. You know, for sure there's something

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Speaker 3: my clients who range for me to do this, but

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Speaker 3: they basically say yes, stick a pin in this.

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Speaker 2: What have you learnt, Bill from hanging out with people

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Speaker 2: at the very end of their lives? Are there any

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Speaker 2: Are there any commonalities that everyone has?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they accepted, they accept it that there's the fear

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Speaker 3: of leaving families. But what I've learned about the families

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Speaker 3: and those left behind is I'd rather be with their

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Speaker 3: animals than they.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bill, I'd love to talk to you all day.

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Speaker 1: I can see this becoming a feature film, surely.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I have been approached and I have Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: signed a contract with Plenty himself. So rather at this stage,

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Speaker 3: it's all about the book. Now, I'm really well with

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Speaker 3: the book of really loving that side of it at

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Speaker 3: the moment.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bill, you can buy The Coffin Confessor in all

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Speaker 1: good bookstores today.

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Speaker 2: Fascinating Bill. Thank you, thank you, Bill, Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 3: So much for having me. And don't forget if you guys,

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Speaker 3: if anything ever happens on the way home, what's left

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Speaker 3: at home? You don't want somebody to find Did you

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Speaker 3: call and I'll go get rid of it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've got my copies of Big and Bouncy.

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Speaker 2: Who knew you're into jumping castles?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bill?

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Speaker 3: All right, guys, thank you. Jonesy and Amanda's