I'm sure this industry tries to keep everything and everyone in a 'haze': 'Be in denial, it is not a life that is being extinguished, it is some foreign protoplasma, or a 'pseudo-tumor' that is being removed'.
I.e., 'don't think and consider what you are actually doing - and all of its ramifications - just do it'.
Luckily, I’ll never know or understand the experience.