If the Warmbier’s are Jewish (as Otto’s wikipedia page may suggest) then it’s very understandable why they don’t want an autopsy performed.
And regardless, they don’t need to know a coroner to tell them what is already known—The North Koreans put him on death row.
Just read about other Americans who survived North Korea like Charles Robert Jenkins to know what they do to their prisoners. Perhaps Otto couldn’t do recite the North Korean national anthem by heart in Korean and was simply pummeled into a coma as a punishment. We’ll most likely never now.
I’ll respect his parents wish here.
It doesn’t really matter what we respect :)
But you’re right. In this case dead is dead.
BTW, do you know why he was there to being with?
Same here. They probably just want don’t want to officially know the horrors their son went thru. Everyone knows the North Korean scum killed him.