Yes, when the puppeteer is dead - or otherwise incapacitated eg persistent vegetative state, busy counting newly paid billions of dollars in blind trust etc - the puppet may indeed do something readers may designate as falling to the floor, when I (I mean ME) am dictator, and not HE (the living proof of that even intelligent design does sometimes produce paradoxical results).
Yes, when the puppeteer is dead - or otherwise incapacitated eg persistent vegetative state, busy counting newly paid billions of dollars in blind trust etc - the puppet may indeed do something readers may designate as falling to the floor, when I (I mean ME) am dictator, and not HE (the living proof of that even intelligent design does sometimes produce paradoxical results).