{"id":145533,"date":"2022-09-03T13:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/death-in-space-heres-what-would-happen-to-our-bodies"},"modified":"2022-09-03T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:23:55","slug":"death-in-space-heres-what-would-happen-to-our-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/death-in-space-heres-what-would-happen-to-our-bodies","title":{"rendered":"Death In Space: Here\u2019s What Would Happen To Our Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/death-in-space-heres-what-would-happen-to-our-bodies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As space travel for recreational purposes is becoming a very real possibility, there could come a time when we are travelling to other planets for holidays, or perhaps even to live. Commercial space company Blue Origin has already started sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/blue-origin-first-crewed-launch-four-world-records\">paying customers<\/a> on sub-orbital flights. And Elon Musk hopes to start a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/23\/elon-musk-aiming-for-mars-so-humanity-is-not-a-single-planet-species.html\">base on Mars<\/a> with his firm SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>This means we need to start thinking about what it will be like to live in space \u2013 but also what will happen if someone dies there.<\/p>\n<p>After death here on Earth the human body progresses through a number of stages of decomposition. These were described as early as 1,247 in Song Ci\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collected_Cases_of_Injustice_Rectified\">The Washing Away of Wrongs<\/a>, essentially the first forensic science handbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As space travel for recreational purposes is becoming a very real possibility, there could come a time when we are travelling to other planets for holidays, or perhaps even to live. Commercial space company Blue Origin has already started sending paying customers on sub-orbital flights. And Elon Musk hopes to start a base on Mars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}