answer:The length of the prison sentence. It is not the same in that an animal has not got laws protecting it. Many animals are probably put down that could be cured or helped, and that is regretful. If the same happens to a human is it horrific. I feel that if the person who opts for suicide doesn’t waver in that desire, and they are definitely beyond help, then they should be allowed to do as they wish. Animals can’t make a choice – we have to do it for them, and it can be an agonising decision. My mother had cancer and committed suicide. She did it once the cancer reached her spinal cord and brain. She said goodbye to most of the family and then died that night. I held her hand as she died.