Can Folgers Coffee Urn be Used for Cremation?

Take a look at our selection of Folgers lebowski to find unique or personalized handmade pieces. Donny Folgers Coffee Can Urn Big Lebowski sticker is an alternative to traditional cremation urns.

Can Folgers Coffee Urn be Used for Cremation?

Take a look at our large selection of Folgers lebowski to find the best in unique or personalized handmade pieces. Donny Folgers coffee Can Urn Big Lebowski sticker is a popular choice for those looking for an alternative to traditional cremation urns. While larger coffee cans can hold up to 185 cubic inches in volume, this may not be enough for the cremated remains of someone who weighed more than 185 pounds when alive. Despite the humorous scene in the movie, Gail Rubin (“The Dean of Death” from “A Good Goodbye”) has some important lessons to share.

For instance, you don't need to buy an urn from a funeral home, as per the FTC Funeral Rule. Additionally, when you disperse the ashes, it's best to stay downwind. Rubin also suggests using a boat instead of a cliff for scattering ashes on water. Lastly, she reminds us that a eulogy should be about the deceased and not about the person giving it.

If you search online, you'll find plenty of Folgers coffee cans, but the exact version used in the film is rare. The couple in the movie use a Folgers coffee can for ashes after discovering how expensive an urn from a funeral home can be. For fans of the cult classic movie, The Big Lebowski, there is an auction of a replica urn of the Folger's coffee tin used in the film. While there are many Folgers coffee cans on the Internet, the exact version of the coffee can used in the film was made in the mid-90s and not in the kind of quantities that make it easy to obtain.

Vintage Folgers coffee from the 80s can be obtained through an online auction with a very difficult to find blue lid from a different brand. The company says that the toolmaker used a red Folgers tin from the mid-1990s covered with a blue lid that doesn't match Maxwell coffee. The ashes are in a Folgers coffee tin because the cost of an urn was too expensive, and Sobchak completely ruins the simple funeral of two people with a senseless detour in his own shell shock of the Vietnam War and scattering the ashes all over other funeral guests, Jeffrey “The Dude Lebowski” included. While there are many Folgers coffee cans on the internet, the exact version of the coffee can used in the film was made in the mid-90s and not in large quantities that make it easy to get.

The suppliers of beautiful handmade cremation urns Memento Memorials have tracked down these vintage tins with blue lids (Folgers has never used blue lids, so this one is almost certainly from a Maxwell House tin) and paired them with pedestals made of bowling balls to create replicas of Big Lebowski ballot boxes.

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