--- title: Living well because life is short — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Living well because life is short», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Let's go to the seaside this weekend, like Grandad always wanted»: a death often reminds people that life does not last for ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Living well because life is short # Living well because life is short Lesson 76 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/1/) — Let's go to the seaside this weekend, like Grandad always wanted»: a death often reminds people that life does not last for ever, and makes them want to spend it on what matters. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/4/) — Christians believe each day is a gift from God and that love is the greatest thing, as Paul wrote, «Faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love»; humanists say this life is the one we know, so we should make it count; both say live well now. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/5/) — Old sayings carry the same wisdom: «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» (from the Bible) means make up before bed; «a good innings» (from cricket) means a long, full life; a gravestone that says only «She loved and was loved» says what lasts. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/6/) — For a child today this means: don't wait to tell people you love them, to say sorry, or to do good things together. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/7/) — A death often reminds people that life is short and makes them want to spend time on what matters. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/8/) — Many people near the end of life say they wish they had loved more and worried less. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/10/) — Christians believe life has meaning because God made and loves each person, and that life continues with God. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/11/) — Humanists believe meaning comes from how we live and love in this one life. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/13/) — «A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full life. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/14/) — «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» comes from the Bible (Ephesians 4:26) and means make up before the day ends. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/15/) — A bucket list is a list of things someone wants to do before they die; the name comes from the saying «kick the bucket», meaning «die». - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/17/) — Paul wrote, «Faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.» - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/18/) — Most people who love us would want us to keep living fully and be happy after they die. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/19/) — Saying «I love you» often is a good habit, not a weird one. - ← previous: [Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/) - next →: [Kindness to the dying and visiting the old](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/77-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)