Example: A stateâs law defines aggravated battery as âintentional and harmful physical contact with another with the intent to maim or disfigure.â This is a specific intent crime because it requires that the defendant not only cause harmful contact, but also with the purpose of maiming or disfiguring the victim.
the staging of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd includes four stages with the last stage often referred to as end stage though stage iv or end stage may be a clinical term for the last of the four stages in the standard copd staging guidelines it certainly doesn t mean the end stage of one s life
Still, one group of researchers recently did try to address this very question of life expectancy by stage of COPD. They concluded that for otherwise healthy 65-year-old men with Stage I COPD, life expectancy ranges from 14 to 18 years, depending on whether the person was a current, former, or never smoker.an be a slow agonizing death. I am 57 and have COPD smoked for 16 years 2-3 packs a day I quit 16 years ago this coming August. I am in stage two,the stage is not important,how you take care of your self is ,as COPD is not reversible only progresses.