he died of foolishness...
Posted on 06/21/2017 1:15:01 AM PDT by ColdOne
Full Title..........................Coroner grants request from Otto Warmbier's family NOT to perform autopsy on the student who died after being held captive in North Korea for 17 month - as US government calls for three more Americans to be freed.........................An autopsy will not be performed on Otto Warmbier's body, after a coroner granted his family's request not to do so.
The Hamilton County Coroner's Office released a statement Tuesday after conferring with doctors at the Cincinnati hospital where the 22-year-old student died just days after he was returned from North Korea.
Warmbier had been held captive in the country for 17 months.
Coroner Dr Lakshmi Sammarco said in the statement the student's family stated it did not want an autopsy to be completed after an external examination.
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It’s amazing how NOBODY wants autopsies of their kin who die under the MOST CIRCUMSPECT situations.
My pop died from a brain aneurysm and the blood was there to prove it. He had had 2 heart attacks, a stroke and an aneurysm before the fatal one.
And my mother STILL got an autopsy done.
But here???? Nah!!!!! Why bother? He probably died of old age.
I certainly respect the families wishes. They have all kinds of tests and xrays to work with that were taken when he was alive.
I don't! While it is their lawful right to request this (non) action, sometimes the needs of your country come first. The child is dead. North Korea is a savage enemy. Every piece of evidence should be gathered. I suspect pressure on the family from some entity that doesn't want the truth.
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.
Perhaps they don’t want to go down in history as the excuse for World War 3.
What TRUTH are you looking for? He’s dead. They fried his brain.
I differ.
One more medical opinion would be useful to round out the record.
After all, if Kim pushes things, we may end up murdering a few million Norks.
Should that happen, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind will require from us a full accounting. In excruciating detail.
Yes, I wonder if some sort of white wash is going on.
With great respect to the family, this appears to be a case of murder. It is in the public interest that we have a full report, in order that justice may be done.
Autopsies are important and valuable.
At Boston City Hospital in the 1930s, the autopsy rate was 100%. I still use the data from those old, old autopsies at least once a week.
The autopsy rate today for medical deaths is effectively zero. The only autopsies which are even close to “routine” are those of homicide victims, to recover the evidence.
It’s too bad, we still have a lot to learn. Interns are the ones who have to ask the families of the deceased, and it’s as hard a job now as it was 40 years ago when I was doing it.
But the culture has shifted, death is feared much more, invokes fault much more, invokes blame much more, and for most families it’s an opportunity to deny “the system” something “the system” wants.
Warmbier’s family is Jewish, and media sources say that Otto was “active in Hillel and went on Birthright.” Jewish tradition and custom is to not approve of autopsy. If there was not much to be gained by one vis a vis his condition that MRI scans and other other tests have already uncovered, then the family may have chosen to simply not allow one for religious reasons.
The hospital should have blood samples. In three weeks, analyses should disclose much of what is needed.
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?
Yes but how, certainly not botulism.
The kids dead yes to bad but his stupid actions as the stupid actions of many liberal butt holes cost the rest of us big time $$.
If he’s Jewish I understand. If not, I don’t.
I agree with the parents. If this were my son, he would not have an autopsy either.
The public’s curiosity does not outweigh the murder victim’s right to privacy.
I wonder if the U.S government convinced them not to have an autopsy.
he died of foolishness...
The Norkies had him for over a year? A lot of damage could’ve been done that would show up on an autopsy. Family and government may not want that info out. Also, Warmbier may also have had other health issues/history from before his captivity that the family may not want out there.
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