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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. The government declared a week long period of mourning after the state funeral took place, Qiu Heng was then buried in a specially built mausoleum that was called the Temple of the Republic. Even today the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] commemorates Qiu Heng's birthday with events in the mausoleum, there have been proposals to paint its roof yellow to more closely depict Qiu Heng as aligned to the Party's views. | 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. The government declared a week long period of mourning after the state funeral took place, Qiu Heng was then buried in a specially built mausoleum that was called the Temple of the Republic. Even today the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] commemorates Qiu Heng's birthday with events in the mausoleum, there have been proposals to paint its roof yellow to more closely depict Qiu Heng as aligned to the Party's views. | ||
==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
Qiu Heng was married twice during his lifetime. His first wife was Li Shenfi | Qiu Heng was married twice during his lifetime. His first wife was Li Shenfi, a cousin of [[Dai Hanjian]] with whom he had one daughter named Qiu Yue. Qiu Yue became a physicist and worked on the State Atomic Commission and was a university lecturer. After Li Shenfi died of stomach cancer, Qiu Heng married one of his secretaries named Cui Yang, a woman twenty years younger than him. They had a son named Qiu Kezhen who became a lawyer and had several positions in the central bureaucracy. | ||
==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||
[[Category:Daxia]] | [[Category:Daxia]] | ||
[[Category:People]] | [[Category:People]] | ||