All this is touching and all but you know what is more traumatic? Knowing they went through all that only to put you through it again. Instead of protecting you from it they made it your reality too. Now you not only unlearning your trauma but theirs too.
Honorary degrees shouldn’t be a thing anyway. You either went to school and got the degree or you didn’t. In my opinion it’s a slap in the face to the students who worked hard.