Indeed , but in the technicalities of this thread it is already dead, so you are not killing it again.
Lord knows how/why but I have shot, killed, cleaned, skinned, head and boots off rabbits before, totally ready for the pot and in a couple of instances they have still twitched! Some muscle spasms, nobody can suggest they are still alive though!
About 15 years ago me and my bro where kids and we where preparing a trout caught about half an hour earlier. We gutted it and 2 mins later it flapped across the work top and onto the floor no kidding - it had no guts We ran out of