‘Coffin Confessor’ TV Series in the Works at Fifth Season, Based on True Story of Man Paid to Crash Funerals and Reveal Secrets of the Dead (EXCLUSIVE)

An Australian man with a distinctly unusual profession is getting adapted for television. According to Variety, production company Fifth Season has optioned 'The Coffin Confessor,' a memoir about someone hired to fulfill dying people's final wishes — sometimes by crashing their own funerals to reveal closely-kept secrets. It's the kind of premise that feels almost too strange to be real.

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