No one hands you a fiduciary appointment and mentions the grief. You expect the paperwork, the deadlines, the court reporting. What you don't expect is how close this work keeps you to loss, and how much of it you end up carrying yourself. If you've ever closed out an estate and felt something heavier than tired, or sat with a client through a decline and had nowhere to put what you witnessed, this one's for you. Grief runs through fiduciary work from both directions. The peo