Why are the testicles removed in a autopsy?

This is not as simple as you've asked it. During an autopsy, EVERY major organ including the testicles and brain and snippets of blood vessels, are surgically removed, weighed, examined. On SOME organs, a small cube-size piece the size of a sugar cube or a crouton might be kept after examination. Any organ needed for legal purposes is preserved. ALL organs are then put into plastic bags and laid back into the body before the body is surgically sewn up.

A medical examiner / coroner can only keep organs if:

1. they are needed to prove cause of death in a legal case, or;
2. if they have written permission to keep them for a medical purpose such as research.

Autopsy can seem a strange and scary event to happen to any loved one. But it is necessary to determine cause of death when death was not expected, was not witnessed, or is suspected of being foul play,