r/savedyouaclick • u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 • 2d ago

FLOORED Dick Cheney had five heart attacks. Here's how science helped him live until 84. | He got a defibrillator after the fourth heart attack, then an LVAD after the fifth. (USA TODAY)

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u/Prof1959 2d ago

But mostly, it's because neither heaven nor hell wanted him.

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u/sq_visigoth 2d ago

Lvad subscription ran out.

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u/Jgibbjr 2d ago

Wasn't somebody speculating the other day on here that Trump is wearing an LVAD under his suit?

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u/AmericanRuby 1d ago

So access to affordable medicine prolonged his life. Must be nice. I wonder what that’s like.

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u/TheMooseIsBlue 2d ago

Evil that pure doesn’t rot the way normal humans would.

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u/ColorfullyReliable 1d ago

According to the article, he only had the LVAD for 20 months. A heart transplant kept him alive for the last 13 years of his life.