Read: A Parting Lesson from My Parents

After helping three family members with their end of life, Andrew Dreyfus, CEO and President of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Massachusetts, explains that the real job of medicine is not to ensure health and survival but to ensure well-being.

Listen: We Don't Fully Grow Up Until We Lose Our Parents

NPR journalist Scott Simon provides the latest update to his series of tweets about his mother's passing.