[Criteria of the death of an individual from the point of view of forensic medicine].

Five dead bodies from which the kidneys had been removed for transplantation were investigated with reference to the findings and the time elapsing until determination of cerebral death. In two other cases, organs were not removed because the relatives had refused consent or cerebral death had not yet occurred. The uncertainty of the exact time of cerebral death is reflected in the uncertainties in the documentation of the time of death.