Per a family statement, Cheney died “due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.” The former vice president was struggling with cardiovascular disease for large parts of his adult life.

He survived several heart attacks and had a heart transplant in 2012. Two years later, he hailed the transplant as “the gift of lite itself.”

Dick Cheney, dead at 84

“His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed,” the Cheney statement read. “Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing,” his family said.

The statement continued, “We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have