"How should I live?"This fundamental question of philosophy calls us to decide how we wish to shape our entire life. We always live with the knowledge of a past that forms our present and future life, while also always seeing an open future stretched before our eyes. We know our finitude and of our pending death. The limits on our life time challenge us to reflect on which life possibilities at our disposal we wish to wish to live. By means of a general analysis and critique of the human mode of existence, the following study attempts to guide readers to decisions which are answerable and justifiable to themselves and others.