Would you want to know what awaits you? Would you want to be in control of your life . . . and death? What would you do for love?'Sooner or later, willingly or unwillingly, he s going to leave you.'The words cut deep. Emily knows Jake is not like his father; he d never leave her willingly. But if he has inherited his mother's genes, then Huntington s disease is more than likely to take him away. He may even make the same request his mother made, when Jake was still a teenager: to end the suffering for good.