Diane Simpson, the sales director for AW Hainsworth, a wool manufacturer which normally specialises in covers for snooker tables, believes that their "Natural Legacy" woollen coffins sell because thinking of a loved one cocooned in fleece brings more comfort to the families of the deceased than the fact that the coffins are biodegradable.The eco-funeral market is expanding in other directions too.
On the other hand, the narrator himself, cocooned in dreams of death and glory, is hardly in a position to wrestle coherently with the subject.
Growing economies, booming markets and rapid technological change may have cocooned them from hard times, but they also have demanded great skill in running businesses which have to be rethought, and remade, frequently.
Wealthy neighbourhoods are gated and guarded; their children are driven to equally cocooned schools.
So, too, yachts either safely at sea, or cocooned in marinas protected from everyday life.No surprise, then, that sales of mega-yachts worldwide are nearly 30% higher than in previous years, according to ShowBoats International magazine.
After a series of strokes last year, he is now said to be living cocooned in a Jakarta suburb, unaware of much of what has happened to his country.There has been a lot.
The commentariat is mostly too cocooned to ask.
Pakistan's cocooned economy grew weak and uncompetitive.
They leave the congested and declining older urban centres only to find themselves cocooned by larger urban structures in the region at large.
By the 1980s the record business in New York City was cocooned in the major labels' midtown Manhattan skyscraper offices, where receptionists were instructed to refuse tapes from artists who did not already have industry connections via a lawyer, a manager, or an accountant.
Encased in gleaming wood-panelling, designer Allen Moyer's lavishly upholstered saloon car and well-stocked butler's pantry convey the cocooned opulence of 1920s travel.
