Tickled and fatally distracted?
Did the man die of a heart attack? (why didn’t we ask that earlier? We’re slipping…)
Was he being tickled by the feather, and in his spastic tickle-seizure impale himself on a protuberance of sorts?
Finagle asks: Tickled and fatally distracted?
IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING
SwimmingRiddles asks: Did the man die of a heart attack?
NO
(why didn’t we ask that earlier? We’re slipping…)
YES 
Connor asks: Was he being tickled by the feather, and in his spastic tickle-seizure impale himself on a protuberance of sorts?
IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING
Was he a sword swallower?
Was the man hiding and did the laugh/sneeze caused by the tickle cause him to be run through by some person or animal?
Is the victim a famous person?
Is the murderer?
Oh yuck. What images that conjures up.
If he’s not a sword swallower, he should be.
Sala, can’t you count?!? I said NO camels! That’s FIVE camels!
Was the man in a duel?
Connor asks: Was he a sword swallower?
Bingo! A small bag of M&M’s to Connor.
He was a sword swallor, practicing his art with a sharp sword, when his murderer stole up and tickled him, causing him to lose his iron control - with disastrous results.
Very good!
For the folks that asked for no death:
Ed asks his wife about the bathroom floor. She insists there’s a puddle of water there. He steps into their bathroom and looks around, but finds the floor completely dry. He returns to his wife and tells her he understands.
How come?
Was his wife blind, and standing instead iin the shower?
Flypsyde asks: Was his wife blind, and standing instead iin the shower?
NO
Wait a minute, I don’t get it. Nobody died? I’m confused. Ouch, my head hurt. I WANT A BODY!
Do Ed and his wife have a pet?
Flypsyde asks: Do Ed and his wife have a pet?
NO
Did someone spill some rubbing alcohol or acetone (nail polish remover), that would dry fast but leave an odor that the man would recognize (or at least an empty bottle).
Finagle asks: Did someone spill some rubbing alcohol or acetone (nail polish remover), that would dry fast but leave an odor that the man would recognize (or at least an empty bottle).
NO
Just to make sure – the bathroom that the wife was insisting was flooded is the same as the one the man went into?
Does the wife believe the puddle of water to be somewhere other than the floor?