That is precisely why I have no sympathy for him. He had (presumably at least) all these people who loved him tell him to think about what he was doing and he still made the choice to do it.

At some point in the whole process he should have considered the implications of what a surgery, especially this kind of surgery, would mean and at that point it stops being the strangers on the internet's fault and starts being his.

He choose this so my sympathy is better going to the ones who tried to stop him for his own good. Then again in current year wouldn't be surprised if the parents and friends are the ones that convinced him to do it.