The unopened package is the parachute.
A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him is an unopened package. There is no other creature in the field. How did he die?
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He didn’t walk into the field.
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His parachute didn’t open
Source: Anonymous; no. 4 in Paul Sloane’s top ten lateral thinking puzzles