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I can't think what would make a human body tend to implode, except perhaps a sudden exposure to extreme pressure. But that may not be the case because the water in said body would not compress. Perhaps concentric explosive force, as in a plutonium bomb would compress a body for a short time, I don't know. What I do know is that liquids without pressure on them boil away into gas and this is what would happen in a vacuum. As someone already mentioned, this has happened already. Three Soviet cosmonauts returning from, I think the first Salyut mission in the early 70's had a mis-designed valve open and expose their non-space suited bodies to the vacuum of space, it was of course entirely fatal. Their capsule re-entered and landed automatically and the rescue team performed CPR on the dead but otherwise normal looking bodies. I don't know exactly what the cause of death was but I imagine it was a combination of asphyxiation ,embolisms and hemoraging. I'll bet if they had been exposed to space for a longer time they'd have come back resembling Strond Thurmon - sort of like a leftover hot dog that was overcooked.
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