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?

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?