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Starting in 1962 the president began to suffer the debilitating effects of leukemia, a disease he has been accussed of faking during the [[Second Great War]]. Quite real now by all accounts, he rarely appeared in public but to do rare public addresses; he practically lived in the building of the War Ministry during the Little Incursion to manage the war from there. On December 1963 he had to be hospitalized for an acute infection that left him bedridden. With the president's health in dire state, the issue of succession should he die jumped to the forefront in the minds of the country's political and military elites. They settled on general [[Chi Long Qua]], commander of [[Daxia]]n forces during the Little Incursion and a political unknown. Qiu Heng was said to dislike the man but his say on the matter was practically ignored, he fell into a coma in mid May of 1964 and died in July 18th just a few months short of the end of his term. Qiu Heng was buried in a specially built tomb that was called the Temple of the Republic.