# Dick Cheney finally has a heart

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-cheney-finally-has-a-heart/616721>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 24, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-cheney-finally-has-a-heart/616721 "2012-03-24T23:42:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-cheney-finally-has-a-heart/616721/41 "2012-03-27T20:42:12Z")

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Oh, yeah, and Jon Stewart wrote had several good Cheney heart jokes, but his best was a headline – “Innocent Heart Sentenced to Life in Cheney”

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-cheney-finally-has-a-heart/616721/42 "2012-03-28T04:32:52Z")

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Serious question. What are his chances of another heart attack with the new one. He has had, what 10?

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-cheney-finally-has-a-heart/616721/43 "2012-03-28T04:46:06Z")

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> [@AK84](#):
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> Serious question. What are his chances of another heart attack with the new one. He has had, what 10?

If there’s a 1% chance that Cheney will survive with someone else’s heart planted in him, we have to treat it as a certainty.

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**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-cheney-finally-has-a-heart/616721/44 "2012-03-28T07:35:11Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Oh, yeah, and Jon Stewart wrote had several good Cheney heart jokes, but his best was a headline – “Innocent Heart Sentenced to Life in Cheney”

Hee!

I was just thinking earlier that I’ll be surprised if the heart doesn’t reject Cheney.

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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-cheney-finally-has-a-heart/616721/45 "2012-03-28T08:55:29Z")

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> [@Kerrigan](#):
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> There is no hard upper limit for donor age. Depending on the need for organs, the “automatic cutoff” at any given time can be adjusted. That is–if they’re really desperate, they’ll take a look at a 72-year old potential donor. Of course, it all depends in the end on how you are about to die. If it’s a brain injury and the rest of your body is working fine, they very well may check you out.

Thanks.

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