The Picard ManeuverI read that somewhere
YiddishMcSquidishI judge people who don’t sever the notochord first. It’s like the most basic respect you can offer.
It doesn’t actually kill them, and it’s so small that you’re likely to miss it anyway.
Killing them isn’t the point, it’s to prevent suffering.
They don’t have a nervous system like vertebrates do. They can still feel pain if you slice them through the head because they have a network of ganglia throughout their body, not one centralized brain.