Well, it's ridiculous! I mean, she's a female octopus and just because she had kids, her life is over? She has nothing else outside of her single instance of offspring production? She literally is so fulfilled by the act of giving birth that she has to die? Like, that is just the ceiling for her? Does she not realize that she has any other options after this? Does she really think motherhood is the only thing she's good for? Just an octopus incubator?? And you know what, maybe some octopi would choose this life for themselves, but I just can't believe that it's all of them.
And you know what? She really doesn't need to be so doggedly devoted to the raising of those unhatched offspring in the damn deep sea. She has literally 8 arms! Why doesn't she use some of those arms to eat those crabs that keep wandering around? Why doesn't she eat any of the crab on a stick that the researchers fed her? What have other octopuses/octopi said to her that made her feel like this was her only goal in life? Like there was no life outside of child rearing? Her death serves no purpose. She just crawls off and dies when she's finished. Why? Why doesn't she eat one of the damn crabs when the eggs hatch?
And you know what? I don't want to be That Guy, but it took two octopuses, a male and a female, to make those up-to-56,000 eggs. Where the fuck is dad in all this? He gets off scot free! Why the fuck isn't the daddy octopus guarding the eggs sometimes, or getting food for the mother octopus so she doesn't literally starve to death raising his kids. It's bull shit.