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If you think YOU'RE feeling bad, how do you think the beetle felt?
When I got my first (bb) gun as a kid, it did not take long for me to make my first kill. There were some sparrows hopping around in a tree in my backyard while I was out there shootin' mah gun unsupervised (as was the style at the time). I pointed, I pulled the trigger. I shot and killed one of the birds.
And then I walked up to have a glance at the poor bird. Fortunately it was dead. It had a little bullet hole and a bit of blood spilled out. But it was limp when I picked it up.
I felt terrible about it. I think I might've even cried. My dad told me not to do that again, and offered the helpful observation "at least it died quickly".
So along those lines, I hope your former beetle at least died quickly. In truth, a quick passing is almost a blessing. So many organisms linger at the end, humans included. You might've spared this one creature.
And back to the sparrow, I have mostly absolved myself of my avian murder since now as an adult I've come to realize that the bird I shot was an invasive European Sparrow.
So along those lines, I hope if your former beetle didn't die quickly then perhaps it was an otherwise ecologically devastating invasive species and you actually did the right thing by murdering it.
When I was young, upper single digits probably, I had a 1 in a million shot with a rock and an arm sling shot and hit a flying barn swallow out of the air. Killed it. I ended up burying it and putting a cross made of wood bark on it. Felt bad. That was decades ago and still remember.