Cite book URL https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260930585_ACS_Surgery_Principles_and_Practice_critical_care Title ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice critical care Last name Hendry First name Robert Last name 2 Crippen First name 2 David Publisher Decker Intellectual Properties Inc. Year of publication 2014 Page(s) cited 1–10 Chapter Brain Failure and Brain Death Quote However, the clinical reality is that the brain dies in a progressive fashion, not instantaneously. Therefore, it is improbable that the precise point at which “death” occurs is discernible. ...selecting a particular blood alcohol level does not absolutely deﬁne drunkenness any more than a physician pronouncing death absolutely deﬁnes the exact point of death.