Coffin Confessor Bill Egar reveals tells how he almost snatched a body during their own funeral

‘Coffin Confessor’ Bill Edgar has revealed some of the wildest requests he’s received in his unusual job, including removing a client’s body from their own funeral.

The 53-year-old is asking $10,000 to carry out wishes from beyond the grave, employing those near the end of their lives to attend funerals to deliver final secrets to their grieving families.

One notable client wanted Mr Edgar to remove the man’s body from his own funeral because he was against it being kept in a church – which he knew his parents would do regardless of his wishes.

To be ready for the possible kidnapping, he even had an undertaker and hearse on standby outside when the service started.

“He loved his mother and father – he really did, but he thought religion was a cult and just something he couldn’t swallow,” Mr Edgar told the Daily Mail Australia.

“The son made it crystal clear to his parents that he didn’t want a religious funeral, but they organized one anyway.”

There is a clause in the client’s contract with Mr Edgar which states ‘If a funeral is halted without it being able to continue, the signatory agrees to have their body/casket removed’.

That was what Mr. Edgar was willing to do.

“I interrupted the start of the funeral—that was my client’s wish,” Mr. Edgar said.

“If it’s a religious funeral, he told me to stop immediately and explain to everyone why.

“I had to be on standby in case the funeral didn’t go the way my client wanted, and I had to take the body and have it cremated.

“It became a bit of a furore to say the least.”

Mr Edgar said the priest was trying to get him out.

“I stayed where I was and told them straight up that the deceased had his rights and that he didn’t want a religious burial no matter what you were paid to do or do,” Mr Edgar said.

The client had said that if his funeral was in a church, he could be held there, but “without praying and without nonsense,” a phrase Mr. Edgar duly repeated in the place of worship.

“Two people came and stood next to me and asked me to leave,” said Mr. Edgar.

“They said I was very rude and rude and they were going to call the police.

“I said, ‘Here’s my cell phone, if you want to call the police, do so while I have a contract with my client.’

“I said to them, ‘This is how it’s going to end. If you want me to leave, I’ll make sure the coffin comes and my client comes with me.’

“It got really close, there were a lot of discussions and eventually the family came to terms with what their son wanted.”

Instead of the religious ceremony, the deceased’s friends got up and talked about him, although his parents declined the invitation to do the same.

Mr Edgar said he later learned that many of the client’s friends had not attended the funeral because it was in a church and they knew he would not want to.

Part of the confessor’s contract states that he may interrupt the client’s funeral service and deliver a message or confession to “those whom they loved or whom they loved to hate.”

It further reads: “The Coffin Confessor agrees to lend his vote to the signatory and to make every effort to accommodate the last wishes of the signatories.”

For this, Mr. Edgar will charge between $2,000 and $10,000.

He’s interrupted hundreds of farewell rallies to publicize marriage matters and secret sexual orientations, including telling stunned motorcyclists that a feared enforcer was gay and had been in a relationship with one of them, as well as hidden Lotto wins.

There is also a contract for Mr Edgar to carry out a client’s last wishes that they cannot or will not entrust to anyone else.

This contract states ‘the signatory instructs The Coffin Confessor to return to his home and collect various items to be destroyed by incineration or delivered to a person and/or place of their choice’.

Mr Edgar said he had recently done this for a client who was in palliative care.

The order was to retrieve the contents of a safe from the man’s home on the Gold Coast.

Mr. Edgar was told that family might be there, but not to stop him.

“I thought there would be a big drama there,” said Mr. Edgar.

“I walked in, got a safe from the man’s house in front of everyone, and left.

“There were threats from the police and another tried to steal the safe.

“I just said ‘Do you want to call your dad? Do you want to ask your dad exactly what I’m doing – but here’s the video of your dad in a hospital bed in palliative care telling me what he wants done'” .

“One of the sons was very open and he said, ‘Okay, if those are Daddy’s wishes, then those are Daddy’s wishes too’.

‘The daughter was very reserved. She called the police when I left.’

After Mr. Edgar retrieved the contents of the safe, he followed his client’s instructions to photograph them, including large sums of US and UK currency, and then hand them over to the man’s son when he returned a few days later. flew into Australia.

As a result of media attention and a book he wrote this year, Bill Edgar’s Coffin Confessor’s fame has grown worldwide.

While the gig started out as “a joke” to expose the sleazy behavior of a best friend trying to put a dying man’s wife to bed, the Coffin Confessor concept now sees the foundation for an upcoming Hollywood movie and an American reality TV series.

The film, for which Edgar read a script, is being made by Columbia Pictures and has American comic book star Marlon Wayans on board to play the lead role.

Mr Edgar will fly to Canada and Chicago to create a reality TV series based on his unique job.

The clause in the contracts that Mr Edgar says would anger a family member the most is that which states that “the signatory grants him all intellectual property” in relation to the “confession.”

Edgar said he uses foul language from those who think he is benefiting from getting the stories without giving the families a share.

“I tell them, ‘You know what? You should have taken care of your damn mom and dad, then they wouldn’t need me,'” he said.