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It's very dependent of the tree's specie AND the specie of the agressor/ decomposer at the task. Some dead wood can stay for years and years even on weak wood like poplar. On the other side, a very strong tree like a hornbeam with a dense an fibrous wood (prone to dieback from the drought) can...

If the tips are dying, you can bet that the roots are dying too, but which one was the first problem? The tips being lost, that means a short supply of food for the whole tree, both by the lack of production by these said tips and by the overall less than ideal condition of the tree. The roots...

The tips have usually the most active growth/activity. But when a tree struggles to find enougth water for its leaves' needs, it supplies first the easiest parts and restricts or even abandones those which are harder to reach. The tips need more energy to pump the water to them than the lower...