*I used to watch a show called The Expanse.
It is a good a show, it respects the hard math of physics – They show bodies drifting, they are mostly right about the motion.
But you wouldn’t rot like how a body rots on earth.
It is not rot like a dead dog in the sun.
Rotting usually needs oxygen, yes – space has none.
But your gut-see it holds a secret.
It is full of anaerobic bacteria-mean things that hate air.
They will try to eat you from the inside for a short time.
They fail quickly.
The vacuum is the real killer here – no pressure means the water in your cells, it boils instantly.
Heat. It gets taken fast from the boiling – The result is a freeze dry body.
You turn into a mummy thing – stiff and preserved.
We do not decompose into dust.
We become statues of meat.
We will float that way forever.
Not changed – well maybe if a star burns us or gravity grabs us.
We become immortal but done in a lonely way – the body kept whole by the quiet.