A private investigator now earns a living as a 'Coffin Confessor' - gatecrashing funerals at the request of the dead to share on their behalf what they couldn't get off their chest when they were alive.

Bill Edgar, from the , started the world-first business last year when he was hired as a private detective by an elderly man who was terminally ill.

While on his death bed, the 79-year-old had one last request for Mr Edgar - to interrupt his own funeral.

The dying man handed him a sealed envelope, containing instructions of what to say when the man's 'best friend' began his eulogy, the reported.

Unsurprisingly, Mr Edgar's 'Coffin Confessor' business page describes his work as 'confronting and controversial'.

'Engaged by those knocking on death's door Mr Edgar is to interrupt their funeral services without care or concern for anyone but his client,' the description reads.

'He lets those his client loved know just how much they were loved and those they loved to hate to F**k off.' 

It goes on to say Mr Edgar is capable of confessing people's sins and 'dirty little secrets' from beyond the grave.

It says Mr Edgar can demand mourners be removed from funerals, and will even go to his clients' homes to dispose of items they don't wish to be found by family or friends.

'Like him or loath him you won't forget The Coffin Confessor. Every person on this planet has a skeleton in the closet. What's yours?', the description ends on a mysterious tone.

Source: Daily Mail