If your body was sealed in a space suit, it would decompose, but only for as long as the oxygen lasted.
26+ Dead Body In Space
Background. That's actually a complicated question and the answer depends on a variety of factors. Since nasa lacks a protocol for sudden death on the iss, the station's commander would probably decide on how to handle the body.
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If your body was sealed in a space suit, it would decompose, but only for as long as the oxygen lasted. Cctv captures a ghost leaving its dead body. But is it seconds, minutes, or hours until you turn into a meat popsicle?
As humans push further to the stars, it's time to confront the unpleasant possibility of how to proceed if someone died in space.
There was a very bizarre accident that no one can explain, even to this day. But fortunately, that loss of 100 watts of heat isn't all that much compared to the what ultimately dooms you is your body's own traitorous circulatory system. There are societies that desperately need fertilizer, and even they don't use their dead bodies for the purpose. It's a very high vacuum.
