“It’s a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.”

— Yann Martel, Life of Pi

If trading a shrew involves tons of paperwork, just imagine all the paperwork involved in a serious or prolonged illness and transfer of a complex estate. [June 2013, 534 word article]