The human being is a being who asks himself questions, a person who is capable of making decisions related to everyday aspects such as, for example, the menu to prepare at noon but can also reflect on matters as transcendental as the awareness of one's own death or that of a loved one.
Death as part of life can produce a notable existential anguish in a person who feels overwhelmed by so many questions without a clear answer.
The search for answers
Philosophy as a science is very valuable because it helps us to ask ourselves very important questions to add happiness and awareness to life, however, philosophy as shown by the history of this humanistic knowledge has not provided definitive answers to some of the most frequent questions of the human heart.
The weight of uncertainty
From this point of view, there are no absolute certainties in the style of experimental science when a concrete fact can be demonstrated in an observable way. Existential anguish shows precisely the vital uncertainty that affects the subject in their daily mood since these uncertainties have a very notable weight in the heart, that is, they hurt a lot because behind them there is an enormous need to search for a meaning.
Identity crisis
Existential anguish can be experienced at any stage of life from adolescence, since it is at this stage when people begin to become more aware of life and death. But also, about his own identity. In other words, existential anguish can also be motivated by uncertainty regarding such important questions as: Who are you? Or what do you want to do in your life to be happy? A crisis can also be motivated by possible vocation doubts.
Existential anguish also shows the very human error of living more in the future than in the past. That is, to be more in the tomorrow than in the now. When an episode of existential distress occurs, this chapter is usually not short-lived. That is to say, the questions that the person asks himself have such a deep intensity that his answer is not immediate. Otherwise, if the answer were clear, there was no type of vital anguish.
