The procedure when you are disassociated is that your name is announced at the next meeting in front of the whole congregation. Then after this meeting people, including relatives that don't live in the same house, close friends, any JW, can not even say a greeting to this person. If you ran into this person in the grocery store that you have known all of your life you would have to act like you never knew him. This is a very serious matter. Because as a JW you do not have any outside friends.
Bad association spoils useful habits.
All the world is going to die at Armageddon. So when this person is disassociated from JWs he is left with no one. Well anyway, we accepted this reprimanding. Our son, though, never went to another meeting. Well as easy as it was to disassociate him, he was then reinstated.