Meet the ‘Coffin Confessor’, Bill Edgar, as he chats about his latest book The Afterlife Confessional, exploring the ways we love and live.
A successful businessman, counsellor and one of Australia’s leading private detectives, Bill Edgar is the one they call the ‘Coffin Confessor’ – gaining fame for being the man who crashes funerals on behalf of the deceased to give a voice to their final wishes.
In his latest book, The Afterlife Confessional, Bill shares his journey of the things he’s witnessed and learned as the ‘Coffin Confessor’, exploring the finality of death, the power of legacy and Bill’s search for answers about what do we make out of the handful of days we are given?
Loved and loathed in equal measure as the ‘Coffin Confessor’, Bill has encountered all walks of life, from liars and cheats, swindlers and con artists, with his main concern being to protect the secrets and wishes of his dying clients.
Looking through the fascinating lens of his client’s lives, from the widower who escaped aged-care to take her husband’s ashes on a road trip to the man who spent his life paying it forward to try to make up for one shameful act – The Afterlife Confessional questions whether the most profound acts in life sometimes the most quiet ones?
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet ‘The Coffin Confessor’ live in conversation and discover more about the secrets that he keeps for his dying clients, the ways he brings their final wishes to life, and what his journey has taught him about the way we love and live.
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Heartbreaking and hilarious, outrageous and wise, The Afterlife Confessional is Bill Edgar’s fascinating account of the things he’s witnessed and learned as the Coffin Confessor – the bizarre and beautiful ways we live and love, the finality of death and the power of legacy, and how letting go can sometimes be the first step to living on.