Stupid Deaths: Richard the Raker

Death is admiring his freshly cleaned, sweet-smelling set when the next contestant, card number 1326, trails filth across the floor. Richard the Raker introduces himself as a gong farmer and, once Death has guessed what gong means, explains that in the Middle Ages he was paid to empty the cesspits that collected waste from privies. He fell through a toilet floor and drowned in the pit below, which leaves Death oddly unamused and willing to write it off as an occupational hazard, until Richard adds that it happened at his own home on his day off. That detail restores Death's good mood: he ranks the death among his favourites with a toilet pun, waves Richard through to the afterlife with directions to the showers, and is left surveying the mess with no mop except, perhaps, one of his skeleton judges.

Wikipedia's article on gong farmers, the workers who emptied medieval privies and cesspits, cites Richard the Raker's drowning after falling through the rotten floor of a cesspit as a notable example of the trade's hazards.