Falsehood In Autopsy?

It ties in with the scenes with the prosecutor and his wife. He was quite content believing that his wife's death was supernatural and could not be explained,but the doctor kept pushing .

The doctor later realized that the complete truth is not always a good thing, and there was nothing to be gained by everyone involved to know that the victim suffered so much.

Just watched it--I don't think it's just to spare the wife--he suspects there's something more to the murder than what Kenan has divulged. It's just because--what purpose does it serve? Kenan feels badly enough--if he learned that he buried his brother alive--in a shallow grave he could have easily escaped from if he'd been untied.......

No matter who is responsible for the death, no matter what actually happened, this information can only cause pain to those who knew the victim. It can't shed any light on the crime itself, because it was clearly not done intentionally--they believed he was dead when they buried him. So the doctor made the choice to cover it up.

I guess there are three main reasons behind doctor's choice

1. The ugly truth would have only brought misery to people, the wife, the kid, the convicted killer.

2. He sensed something fishy was going on. We know Kenan's dim-wit brother is the real killer but the doctor does not. But he knows Kenan is the kid's real father and he might accidentally have killed the victim while trying to defend himself from kid's legal father. Besides he seemed like an OK guy to the doc. Guy cries after getting thrown rocks at, not like a typical cold-blooded killer's reaction, he thinks. Burying the victim alive was not intentional obviously. So why let him suffer much more revealing the dirt in victim's lungs?

3. He would personally have had to go through some other legal procedures related to the new revelation while he had enough of that already.