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I am firmly on the “They’re bugs, just big delicious ones” side. l have never needed to kill a lobbie, but l’d have no compunction about dropping one into boiling water. lf you have reservations, the freezer will kill them overnight, or a knife thrust into the appropriate point on the carapace will destroy whatever serves them as a brain.
The fisherman whose videos on beach foraging etc. I watch says that a spell in the freezer slows down their metabolism and puts them in a semi-hibernative state but won't kill them. The knife thrust administered after that will kill with little pain.
Obviously not for the squeamish
Personally, I think I've had lobster twice in my life and was distinctly underwhelmed; in contrast, I've eaten crab possibly hundreds of times, a wide variety of kinds, from the cheap and humble to the massive things with eye-watering price-tags.
My conclusion: crab everyday and twice on Sundays.