Downplayed and discussed in Interstellar: Dr.It's probably a quick death if you get hit with that debris, but it's in no way merciful. Gravity: The fact that it happens on Earth's orbit matters little - there is no way to contact anybody, there is very little air, there are very few options to escape, the roaming debris going at hundreds of miles per hour destroys everything that gets in the way, and sanity begins to slip under such stressful conditions.Event Horizon: A rescue mission in deep space that runs into a ship that is not only vile in terms of following No OSHA Compliance, but also because it's become a literal demon from Hell as a result of coming back from a dimension that should not be.Alien: The whole franchise is about people stuck in a Closed Circle, courtesy of being far away in space with little to no chance of people coming to the rescue at all (and if they do, it will take them weeks to months to get to you), with the titular hostile species lurking in the dark and dreary corners of the ship or the planet, trying to get you.2001: A Space Odyssey: Millions of miles away from any help, two men and several frozen passengers and an artificial intelligence that is nowadays one of the Trope Codifiers for A.I.Luckily the protagonist Touta arrives to save her and she's spared the horror of being burned alive for a very long period of time. Since she's effectively completely immortal, she can't die and naturally being alone for that long really starts to get to her mentally, then she spots a sun that she's moving toward. Late into UQ Holder!, Karin is blasted into space as she tanks a spell meant for hrt comrades, sending her hurtling into the depths of space for 45 years.It has a profound effect on him, causing him to go into a state of Trauma-Induced Amnesia and have flashbacks of cold and darkness. He floats around in space for some time, but evidently gets rescued. In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, this happens to Trowa after Quatre accidentally blows up his mobile suit.The first story Magnetic Rose in Memories shows this is Heinz's final fate as he is ejected into space while his ship and crew explode and his partner Miguel stays inside the ship and is brainwashed by the insane AI to think he is Carlos.After an indeterminate amount of time drifting alone in space, Kars' mind can't take it anymore and he simply stops thinking. Even worse, his immortal Ultimate Life Form body can survive even in the vacuum of space. His attempt to return to Earth by venting air from his body backfires when the moisture in the air freezes solid and he drifts even further away from Earth. Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency: In the final battle, Kars is launched into space by a volcanic eruption.Subverted in a later entry in the series, where it's revealed her suit has a stasis feature quite some time later, she's found by another ship, brought aboard, and awakened. Partway through the original Gall Force, Luffy gives up her chance at getting back on the ship before it warps away, leaving her to drift endlessly through space.Still, you will likely consider your slow, lonely death by maybe starvation, maybe suffocation, but probably not suicide as you don't even have the implements to end it all.
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Perhaps you can start an Apocalyptic Log so that when people do arrive, they know what you've been through and how to prevent the situation from happening again - it also allows you to talk to, and fill your days with, something, which might help prevent you from going mad from the isolation. There aren't any other sentient beings within years of your location, but it doesn't matter since In Space Nobody Can Hear You Scream.
Everyone but you has died, and realistically your problems cannot be solved by simply shooting them. But you can't go outside without taking on even more risks, such as getting a puncture in your space suit or the doors locking. Now throw in a malevolent or malfunctioning AI that controls all of the above, or hostile aliens that you have never seen before trying to use you for breeding. And that's when things are working correctly.