If you've ever watched a medical show, or any weekly drama series, inevitably a story arc will revolve around a patient, friend, or family member that is diagnosed with Huntington's disease.
That is a death sentence, and there is never a happy ending. Even in Rob Lowe's 9-1-1 Lone Star series, he helped to euthanize his brother suffering from the disease in the season 4 finale.
BBC News:
The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells, and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson's, and motor neurone disease.
An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients. It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of "good qualit