Abstract
Why do people kill themselves? In many cases we never know for certain, but it must usually mean that life has become unbearable. The “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” can no longer be tolerated, and suicide becomes a means to “take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them” (Shakespeare's Hamlet, act III, scene I). For some persons, Huntington disease (HD) becomes one of those unbearable burdens. In his original description of the disease, George Huntington (1872) himself referred to HD as “that form of insanity that leads to suicide” (p.
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