It hurts, I guess. To be pushed into the far end and to be fully aware that this is the final journey. A new mask can be worn but the hurt will live on. What's actually worse about this is, there is a missing piece to this whole puzzle that perhaps you and I will never find. I guess it has been learnt, in a painful way, that interrferrence of any kind will eventually lead to destruction.

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack.
No hard feelings if I never come back.
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack