I suspect that would not be good eat'n. Female ocotopuses that have laid their eggs start to fall apart - you can see the skin peeling off of them. The females

I suspect that would not be good eat'n. Female ocotopuses that have laid their eggs start to fall apart - you can see the skin peeling off of them. The females stay with the eggs until about when they're ready to hatch and then they just sort of go to pieces. The males, I suspect, suffer a similar fate after they've mated.